{"id":13134,"date":"2020-04-26T11:09:25","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T16:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=13134"},"modified":"2020-04-26T19:11:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T00:11:34","slug":"matthew-klam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/26\/matthew-klam\/","title":{"rendered":"matthew klam"},"content":{"rendered":"

i read matthew klam’s “issues i dealt with in therapy” in 1999 and xeroxed it and tucked it away in my “best short stories” folder (!) (a tradition that died after a couple of years, though i still have the folder). more about klam in “why matthew klam’s new book is only 17 years overdue”<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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But mostly, he was afraid that his success had been all about voice, and that even if his voice was good, it hadn\u2019t evolved enough to justify another piece of writing. \u201cMy voice has not changed, and it\u2019s not an interesting voice,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s just my voice. And here\u2019s the thing: I\u2019ve written, in my voice, plenty of shitty fiction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Teaching allowed him to write and to feel like no one was really watching. \u201cThere is nothing more invisible than a professor at a university \u2014 nothing,\u201d he says. \u201cNo kid sees you\u2019re alive. They don\u2019t give a shit. If you fell over dead in the middle of class, they wouldn\u2019t notice. They\u2019re 19. I\u2019m 50. It\u2019s a good way to work because you\u2019re invisible.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

i read matthew klam’s “issues i dealt with in therapy” in 1999 and xeroxed it and tucked it away in my “best short stories” folder (!) (a tradition that died after a couple of years, though i still have the folder). more about klam in “why matthew klam’s new book is only 17 years overdue”: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13134"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16733,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13134\/revisions\/16733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}