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Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · Sep 7

When everyone else disappoints you there’s always dogs

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Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · Aug 30

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DeepDive @deepdive.audio · Aug 21

In this clip from 'How to Write a Novel,' the debut course from DeepDive, @salesses.bsky.social— acclaimed author of the novel 'The Sense of Wonder' — talks about the necessity of specificity in characterization.

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Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · Aug 30

Eek

Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · Aug 30

Noticed the kids bathroom didn’t have toilet paper today and it turns out my 8yo has been wiping his butt with his clean clothes 😣

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Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · Jul 10

Whew just sent my memoir to my editor

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Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · Jun 28

The growing trend of “maybe life is just a video game” narratives is fascinating

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Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · Jun 21

Writing is always such an act of faith, to think what you start will actually go somewhere and that you’ll be able to make some sense of yourself.

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Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · Jun 12

Academics is how we try to catch up intellectually to our own self-hatred

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Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · Jun 9

Um I could be on your awp panel maybe

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Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · May 31

Mel, you owe Mia the correct number

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Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · May 16

It happened to me: I just tried to swipe a physical book to turn the page.

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Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · May 12

If someone who asks what America is like just tell them about the msg scare of the 90s, when this country was so afraid of Asians people didn’t want their food to taste better.

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Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · May 9

Are you angry with your kid for doing something bad or are you angry with your kid because you can't stand the blow to your own authority?

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Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · Apr 25

Love all her books

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Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · Apr 25

I mean characters society disapproves of (morally), like Bad Marie, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Earthlings, My Sister Is a Serial Killer, Little Rabbit, The Quick and the Dead. Don’t say Lolita.

Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · Apr 25

What are your favorite novels about “bad” people?

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Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · Apr 15

Touche

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Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · Apr 14

It actually makes me feel sick to type out the number of Korean adoptees

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Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · Apr 14

lol. Something about the book def spoke to you!

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Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · Apr 14

Like why don’t I remember anything about these books?

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Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · Apr 14

Going through my office bookshelf and thinking, why didn’t I read this, then finding marginalia in my handwriting

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Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · Mar 15

Advertising is what you call gaslighting that makes money

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Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · Mar 15

4 people should be the maximum for any reading

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