Matt Clark (1967-1998) was a prolific short story writer and also the author of the novel, Hook Man Speaks. He held an MFA from Louisiana State University, and while a graduate student there, he was a fiction editor of the New Delta Review. He became the director of the graduate writing program at LSU at the age of 29, and he died of liver and colon cancer in 1998 at the age of 31.
His friends and fellow authors, Michael Griffith and Josh Russell...
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Matt Clark (1967-1998) was a prolific short story writer and also the author of the novel, Hook Man Speaks. He held an MFA from Louisiana State University, and while a graduate student there, he was a fiction editor of the New Delta Review. He became the director of the graduate writing program at LSU at the age of 29, and he died of liver and colon cancer in 1998 at the age of 31.
His friends and fellow authors, Michael Griffith and Josh Russell, are responsible for continued efforts to bring his work to print. His fiction has appeared in The Alaska Quarterly Review, Gulf Coast, One Story, and Flyway.
Fascinated by tall tales and urban legends, Matt was in the process of inventing a very new kind of Southwest magical realism, part Mark Twain, part Gabriel Garcia Marquez. His most successful story was "The West Texas Sprouting of Loman Happenstance," which was optioned for film and is still in development. Celebrity Brent Spiner owns the rights and is thought to have written the...
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