Matthew Callan - Fake MVP Votes Winner!
Scratchbomb.com is the sole responsibility of Matthew Callan. Matthew Callan grew up in a place with lots of cops and now resides in Queens. He can be found whining about the Mets on the reg over at Amazin Avenue. Look for his work in the 2011 edition of The Amazin Avenue Annual. You can also catch his writing on varied topics at The Classical, Low Times, Splitsider, and McSweeney’s, if you’re into that sorta thing.
Historic facts! He used to write in fake voices for MSN Sports Filter, your one stop shop for football picks by Wesley Willis. (Don’t bother looking for it; THE MAN shut it down.) He was a contributing writer for the NY Press. (This is where’d I’d link to one of my articles, but they too have been silenced by the powers that be. Oh, Internet.). He has penned snotty commentaries for NPR and written a lot of stuff for the sadly defunct Freezerbox.com. One of these pieces, “The Lemon Pledge,” was picked by Dave Eggers for the 2003 edition of the Best American Nonrequired Reading, so you know it’s good. Oh, and he contributed to Excelsior You Fathead, a biography of radio humorist Jean Shepherd. So there’s that.
Regarding fiction, he got an MFA from Brooklyn College, where he got to study with some awesome writers (brag). Stuff he made up has appeared in Beekiller, the Mississippi Review, and Nimrod International Literary Journal, where his completely coincidentally named story “Nimrod” was a finalist for the Katherine Anne Porter Prize. He was also a bridesmaid for fiction contests in Zoetrope: All-Story and Bomb Magazine.
As for the future, he’s working on several books (fiction and non) and other things, but he realizes that saying you’re working on a book is like saying you’re trying to lose weight: it means nothing until it’s done. So when these things are done and you can read, them you’ll be the first to know, okay? Yes, you.
And then one day he’ll die, but then again, so will you. Makes ya think, don’t it?
He also has a wife and child who seem to find him tolerable.
