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Matthew Baker

Biography

Matthew Baker

Named one of Variety's "10 Storytellers To Watch," Matthew Baker is the author of the story collection HYBRID CREATURES and the Edgar Award-nominated children's novel IF YOU FIND THIS. His fiction has appeared in publications including The Paris Review, American Short Fiction, One Story, Electric Literature, Conjunctions and Best Of The Net. Born in the Great Lakes region of the United States, he currently lives in New York City.

Matthew Baker

Books by Matthew Baker

by Matthew Baker - Fiction, Short Stories

The citizens of Plainfield, Texas, have had it with the broke-down United States. So they vote to secede, rename themselves America in memory of their former country, and happily set themselves up to receive tourists from their closest neighbor: America. Couldn’t happen? Well, it might, and so it goes in the 13 stories in Matthew Baker’s WHY VISIT AMERICA. The book opens with a seemingly traditional story in which the speculative element is extremely minimal --- the narrator has a job that doesn’t actually exist --- a story that wouldn’t seem much out of place in a collection of literary realism. From there the stories get progressively stranger.