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Matt Burriesci

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Matt Burriesci is the author of Nonprofit (New Issues Press, 2015) and Dead White Guys: A Father, his Daughter, and the Great Books of the Western World (Viva Editions, June 2015). His stories have appeared in numerous literary magazines. He began his career at the Tony Award Winning Chicago Shakespeare Theater on Navy Pier, and later served as Executive Director for both the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) and the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. During his tenure at AWP, he helped build the largest literary conference in North America, and he served as a national advocate for literature and the humanities. In his work as a consultant, he has interviewed dozens of global leaders in healthcare, scientific research, and higher educ ...more

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I'm a Cubs Fan. I'm Kinda Sad they Won.

I used to live two blocks from Wrigley Field, at the corner of Halsted and Waveland. My brother lived on Grace. My other brother lived down Sheffield near Irving Park. My sister still lives near the park, just in the other side of Clark Street.

When I lived there I was pretty broke and Sammy Sosa was in the homerun race with Mark McGuire. This was before we knew everybody was juicing, though in ret Read more of this blog post »

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“The power comes from understanding why things are as they are.”
― Matt Burriesci, Dead White Guys: A Father, His Daughter and the Great Books of the Western World

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