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More Interview Delight with Author Matthew F. Amati

Writer: Fawn
Fawn
2 days ago
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Four-time-Weird Lit Mag-published author Matthew F. Amati finishes out our Summer Issue interviews this year, and we've left his responses in presentation without commentary below. Oh yeah, and be sure to read the story we published, here, too: "St. Kevin's Seventeenth Broke-Ass Radio Dream of The End."


Why write?

was kidnapped & forced to write a hit or be killed






Advice on creating you had to learn the hard way?

refuse to be stored in black plastic sacks and placed in the containers provided









Do you have a favorite book that broke your brain a little (or a lot)?

brown book











If you were a cryptid, where would you live?

listing from redfin of a $38,500 manufactured home in Shreveport, LA - 5 bds 2 ba










What other lit journals are you into right now (and what do you like about them)?

   

old magazine cover: successful farming with a boy holding a creepy looking scarecrow
inside a magazine: 069, image of woman holding nose, naked man behind her. "fart" definition in japanese.
magazine cover: your arms remind me of pork luncheon meat








Do you have imposter syndrome when you write?

yes, no, maybe checked







One sentence soapbox: 

old soap box: lenox soap, lathers freely in hard water









Have you written about food in a story before? If so, what food was it and why did it appear there?

finger pointing at a sandwich on a plate next to a typewriter and a beer







When did you realize you were weird?

weird looking baby in black and white gasping









What font do you detest?

unknown script






What is weird?

each editor of the Weird Lit Mag team with silly glasses and noses and mustaches






What do you aim to accomplish by writing?

bonfire with arrow, text: collected works of Matthew F. Amati









Two truths and a lie, please.

1. this is matt: man with watermelon helmet and bra 2. this is matt: man with watermelon helmet and weird glasses smirking 3. this is matt: handsome man holding slice of watermelon







Thoughts about penguins?

animated scene with a dinosaur taking a penguin







What’s the point of all this, really?

man with hair on fire









Unpopular opinion, go:

schematic of a rube goldberg-type setup











Matthew F. Amati is. He will be for a while, until he isn't. Stuff he does can be found here: www.mattamati.com.

 
 
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