Matthew M. Pincus is a creative writer and critic. Find original articles and reviews below.
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Articles
Bewitched Policies of Resistance: America’s Legacy of Unknown Soldiers in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Storyteller
Transmodernity, vol. 7, no. 1, 2017 [Peer-reviewed]
Storyteller (1981) by Leslie Marmon Silko is a unique hybridized text of Laguna Myths centered on topics of Laguna Pueblo Citizens, and more generally Indigenous Southwestern Americans. This article explores three of Silko’s tales
- Tony’s Story
- Uncle Tony’s Goat
- A Geronimo Story
in which characters are agents of political resistance against injustices enacted by the American Military and law enforcement over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In these stories, characters become free to interact and commune with the land. Sites of invasion and theft from indigenous become sites of reverence and remembrance.
Unpolished Friendship: Dodie Bellamy as Novelist and Kathy Acker’s Enduring Influence
“Acker and Bellamy were both fellow friends and writers in the 1980s as participants and performers during workshops and reading at Small Press Traffic. Acker, during her graduate studies at UCSD in the early seventies taught under David Antin, a talk poet closely connected with Black Mountain poets.
Both poets however, are directly and indirectly indebted to Antin’s use of bibliomancy, being drawn to a book in a library or bookstore by spirit or divinatory fate, taking one line, then another, and composing a text. Bibliomancy would help to form the foundation of their narrative style, but led to further compositions using appropriations of transgressive language to expand beyond conventional boundaries of repressed social issues and cultural taboos.”
Reviews
2018
Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi in Rain Taxi Review, 2018
Five Carat Soul by James McBride in The Millions, 2018
2017
Whereas by Layli Long Soldier in Rain Taxi, vol. 22, no. 4, 2017
2016
Sudden Death by Alvaro Enrigue in Rain Taxi, vol. 21, no. 3, 2016
The Radical Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life and Mind edited by Claudia Rainkine, Max King, and Beth Lofreda in Something on Paper, vol. 3, no 1, 2016
2015
“Women of Naropa and Friends Celebrate Anne Waldman,” April 23, 2015
Review of The Mersault Investigation in Rain Taxi, vol. 20, no. 3, 2015
Streaming by Allison Hedge Coke on The Volta Blog, 2015
The Journey by Sergio Pitol in Bookslut, 2015
Musical Brain and Other Stories by César Aria in Bookslut, 2015
Everybody Suffers: The Selected Poems of Juan Garcia Madero in PANK, 2015
Texas: The Great American Theft by Carmen Boullosa in Bookslut, 2015
2666 by Roberto Bolaño in PANK Magazine, 2015
2014
Salamandrine: 8 Gothics by Joyelle McSweeney in Bombay Gin, vol. 40, no. 1, 2014
Roberto Bolaño’s Fiction: An Expanding Universe by Chris Andrews in Rain Taxi, vol. 19, no. 4, 2014
Cunt Norton by Dodie Bellamy in Rain Taxi ,vol. 19, no. 1, 2014
What Happened Here by Bonnie Zobell on Rain Taxi, 2014
Neverhome by Laird Hunt in Bookslut, 2014
Unchecked Savagery by Glenn Shaheen in PANK Magazine, 2014
The Conductor and Other Tales by Jean Ferry in Necessary Fiction, 2014
The Conversations by César Aria in Bookslut, 2014
The Exiles by Matthew Kirkpatrick in PANK, 2014
OK Tony by Cyrus Console on The Volta Blog, 2014
The Whack-Job Girls and Other Stories by Bonnie ZoBell in PANK Magazine, 2014
Let Go and Let Go On by Tom Kinsella in Bookslut, 2014
What’s the Deal by Rod Smith in The Volta, 2014
Louis XXX by Georges Bataille, translated by Stuart Kendall in PANK, 2014
The Night Palace eds. Micah Ballard and Julien Poirier on The Volta Blog, 2014
Who Said by Jennifer Hecht on The Volta Blog, 2014