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Matthew Daddona

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Matthew Daddona is a writer, editor, and reviewer residing in Brooklyn. His most recent writings have appeared in Outside Magazine, Lit Hub, and Decider.com. He is an editor at The Scofield and has been a part of numerous spoken-word and poetry ensembles.
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Finishing What You Start: A Conversation with Musician Matt Kivel

  • Matthew Daddona
  • April 12, 2017
Matt Kivel discusses his latest release, Fires on the Plain, the ways in which cinema inspires his music, and how he reads his critics.
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I Enjoy That Confusion: Paul Rome and Roarke Menzies’s Philadelphia and Other Stories

  • Matthew Daddona
  • January 15, 2015
Does art imitate life or does life imitate art?
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Photos that Remember Us

  • Matthew Daddona
  • January 11, 2015
Mathew Daddona's father and uncle were adopted into different families. When they reunited with each other and their biological father as adults, they uncovered connections that extend through the generations.
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Saint Friend by Carl Adamshick

  • Matthew Daddona
  • September 20, 2014
Matthew Daddona reviews Carl Adamshick's Saint Friend today in Rumpus Poetry.
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