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Matthew Gallaway

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Matthew Gallaway is the author of #gods and The Metropolis Case, which was praised by the New York Times for being “driven by exuberance and morbidity, fatalism and erotic energy.” He lives in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City with his partner and many cats. Previously he worked as a record-store clerk while earning a law degree from NYU and was a member of the indie rock band Saturnine.

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	The Metropolis Case 3.50 avg rating — 719 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Coming and Crying by Melissa Gira Grant (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Meaghan O'Connell (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Stephen Elliott (Contributor) 3.68 avg rating — 141 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	#gods 3.55 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Die Sache Metropolis by Matthew Gallaway (Goodreads Author), Andreas Diesel (translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Notes on Pittsburgh (Where Is My Mind)

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I arrived on Monday to spend a week with my mother, who is about to turn ninety-four.

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“As much as we like to think we grieve for others, she said, it bears keeping in mind that we are also grieving for ourselves and, above all, what has inevitably passed us by.”
― Matthew Gallaway, The Metropolis Case

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“I'm sorry," Leo murmured and then seemed to look through Martin for a few seconds before he returned his gaze to him. "Although if it's any comfort - and please don't take this the wrong way, because I speak from my own perspective, which I understand often places me far outside of the norm - I sometimes like to think that death, at least in the case of those we truly love, allows us to appreciate what they have done for us in ways that are not possible when we're all here, constantly changing and fixated on how to get from one day to the next. Death offers us the chance to reflect on who they were, which of course is a way to understand ourselves. As painful as it can be to see them go - and I don't mean to diminish the sense of loss or grief we all feel - there is also no greater gift.”
― Matthew Gallaway, The Metropolis Case

tags: death, introspection

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“No matter how hard life gets, we only get one chance, which is why we owe it to ourselves to make the best of it, for as long as we have.”
― Matthew Gallaway, The Metropolis Case

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“Like God, art seemed to hover over us, perhaps benevolent, and often sublime, but constantly, maddeningly out of reach.”
― Matthew Gallaway, #gods

tags: art, benevolent, finances, god, sublime

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“Occasionally, if you repeat questions and phrases long enough one's mind will suddenly, and seemingly magically, stumble upon an elucidation, which feels like a hallucination.”
― J.M. Geever, The Black Cat

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