Mat Johnson
@matjohnson
Author: Invisible Things, Loving Day, Pym, Incognegro, etc. Helped on The Fall of the House of Usher (Nflx) and Manhunt (🍎). Philly-born; Oregon-thriving Storytelling Guru at U of Oregon; Go 🦆! Will block for pedantic responses to joke posts—gleefully
Been trying to decide between relocating back to LA or my native Philly, but the combo of this weather and that Sixers playoff series may have decided it for me.
@chelseagsummers.bsky.social Yo! I was at The Strand, and my daughter recommended this amazing book she just read.
The “unicorn!” The “Temu Tenere!” The Ibex 450. Works great in trail-rich Oregon. But if I move back to a big city, I’m trading it in for a Livewire, for all the stop and go traffic.
Chicago, this August. Applications due March 27. Come write and celebrate writing with me. Apply by March 27: www.storystudiochicago.org/storyboard-c... @storystudiochicago.bsky.social
Lighthouse Lit Fest is coming up. You got a novel you're trying to take to the next level? Apply, come, and let's work it out. lighthousewriters.org/workshop/adv...
Haha--laugh at Bovino all you want, but back in the day he won an Oscar for The Year of Living Dangerously.
Philly Things in San Francisco 1. The LOVE sculpture, @ SF MoMA 2. The old 23 trolley, a long way from Germantown Avenue 3. Wilt Chamberlain, on the zombie Philadelphia Warriors. He only lasted about a year before coming back to join his hometown’s new team, the 76ers
Favorite Xmas Movie: Trading Places Favorite Xmas Song: “Christmas Wrapping” by The Waitresses Favorite Xmas Gift Received: The Green Machine
She came in through the bathroom window, Protected by a silver spoon. But now she sucks her thumb and wonders By the banks of her own lagoon. Didn't anybody tell her? Didn't anybody see? Sunday's on the phone to Monday, Tuesday's on the phone to me.