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Matt Sumell on Writing, Self-Editing, Billy Joel, Long Island, Family, Drinking, and Anxiety

Matt Sumell on Writing, Self-Editing, Billy Joel, Long Island, Family, Drinking, and Anxiety

Published 2 years, 8 months ago
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In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 374, my conversation with Matt Sumell, author of the novel-in-stories Making Nice (Picador). It first aired on August 5, 2015.

Sumell is a graduate of UC Irvine's MFA program, and his fiction has since appeared in Esquire, the Paris ReviewElectric LiteratureOne StoryNoon, and elsewhere. He lives in Los Angeles, California. 

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