Matthew Fiander

@mattfiander

Author, editor, RINGING IN YOUR EARS (Main Street Rag, 2023)

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The latest @loriostlund.bsky.social book is so good. Every story lands. You could teach a class — using only this book — on how backstory and present action can tangle each other up into so many different knots, rather than one just setting up the other. What a collection to get lost in. Loved it.

Cover for Lori Ostlund’s short story collection, titled Are You Happy?

Matthew Fiander@mattfiander· May 31

About 40 pages into the new Leni Zumas novel. Full of beautiful lines and just ran into a Dag Nasty reference. So yeah, this book is for me.

Hardcover copy of the Leno Zumba’s novel, Wolf Bells, sitting on a wooden tabletop.

Matthew Fiander@mattfiander· Jan 12

Lost in the latest Necks’ album this morning. There are no bad records from this band — in fact they’re all great — but this is right up there with their best work.

Cover for the 2025 album, Disquiet, by The Necks.

Matthew Fiander@mattfiander· Jan 11

Love’s Work by @zacharycale.bsky.social is one of the best instrumental records of last year. Beautiful tones and textures on guitar, space for all the elements to stretch out, a hint of atmosphere at the edges. Beautiful stuff. #np

Cover of Zachary Cale’s 2025 album, Love’s Work, which is a yellow-filtered image depicting an angular sand castle on a beach.

Matthew Fiander@mattfiander· Jul 10

Great mail day courtesy of @andrewbertaina.bsky.social and @barrelhouse.bsky.social. Can’t wait to read this one.

Book cover for Andrew Bertaina’s memoir, Ethan Hawke and Me, focused on the excellent Before Trilogy directed by Richard Linklater.

Matthew Fiander@mattfiander· Jul 4

Mayor Vaughn in Jaws promising this is going to be one of the best fourth of Julys Amity Island has ever had. Hard to tell why I’ve thought about this scene for like 10 years running.

Matthew Fiander@mattfiander· Mar 18

I feel like the past few years have seen an impressive run of deep, rangy, unpredictable, and just downright excellent story collections, and SAD GROWNUPS by @amystuber.com is one of the finest.

Cover of Sad Grownups, an excellent story collection by Amy Stuber. The cover has a white background with a staggered stack of blocks rising up the middle in a purple, dark blue, light blue, green pattern. The title -- Sad Grownups -- and Amy Stuber's name are stacked in block letters in the middle of the cover, with "short stories" in dark blue or purple just under the word "Grownups".

Matthew Fiander@mattfiander· Feb 29

Hey all! The ebook version of Ringing in Your Ears is out now. You can pick it up for a low price or -- for a while, anyway -- check it out on #KindleUnlimited. Link in comments.