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Matthew Klam was named one of the twenty best fiction writers in America under 40 by The New Yorker. He’s a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Robert Bingham/PEN Award, a Whiting Writer’s Award, and a National Endowment of the Arts. His first book, Sam The Cat and Other Stories, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year in the category of first fiction, was selected as a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times, Esquire Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The Kansas City Star, and by the Borders for their New Voices series. His work has been featured in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Esquire, GQ Magazine, and The New York Times Magazine. He is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire and Hollins College, and has ...more

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	Who Is Rich? 2.98 avg rating — 1,733 ratings — published 2017 — 12 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
	Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink by David Remnick (Editor), Joseph Mitchell (Contributor), John McPhee (Contributor) 4.04 avg rating — 1,164 ratings — published 1976 — 27 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
	Sam the Cat and Other Stories 3.44 avg rating — 723 ratings — published 2000 — 17 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
	The New Granta Book of the American Short Story by Richard Ford (Editor), Eudora Welty (Contributor), Andre Dubus (Contributor) 4.01 avg rating — 407 ratings — published 2007 — 8 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
	The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction by Joyce Carol Oates (Editor), Christopher R. Beha (Goodreads Author) (Editor), T. Coraghessan Boyle (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.10 avg rating — 362 ratings — published 2008	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
	Generación quemada (Una antología de autores norteamericanos) by Zadie Smith (Editor), George Saunders, Jeffrey Eugenides 3.85 avg rating — 337 ratings — published 2003 — 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
	There Should Be a Name for It 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2000	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
	Sam the Cat: and Other Stories it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating	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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“Illustration is to cartooning as prison sodomy is to pansexual orgy.”
― Matthew Klam, Who Is Rich?

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“Amare una persona è diverso dal volerla intrappolare, dal volere qualcosa che sia tuo e solo tuo. E' come tentare di abbracciare il tuo quadro preferito, come parlare o danzare con l'ora più perfetta della giornata, con il ricordo dell'albero più bello che hai mai visto.”
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