Matthew Salesses is a writer based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Matthew’s new novel, Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear, is darkly funny, unsettling in the best way, and wholly original, the story of a Korean American man struggling simply to exist as he feels himself literally disappearing. In our conversation, Matthew and I discussed his book, the trap of the first-person perspective, and what it means to take responsibility. Then in the second segment, we talked about the meaning of love.

(Conversation recorded July 8, 2020.)

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Show Notes:

• Matthew Salesses
• Matthew Salesses - Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear
• Thank You Books - Author Event: Laura Van Den Berg in conversation with Matthew Salesses (August 20, 2020)
• Prairie Lights - Reading: Matthew Salesses and Lyz Lenz (August 27, 2020)
• Belmont Books - Virtual Event: Margot Lives and Matthew Salesses (September 16, 2020)
• Review Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear: Amazon | Goodreads
• Julio Cortázar
• Matthew Salesses - Love and Silence (Catapult column)
• Matthew Salesses - “What Does It Mean to Write Asian American Literature?”
• David Eng & Shinhee Han - “A Dialogue on Racial Melancholia”
• Han Kang - The Vegetarian
• Margot Livesey - The House on Fortune Street
• Olga Tokarczuk - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
• Byung-Chul Han - The Agony of Eros
• Kahlil Gibran - “On Marriage”
• Jacques Lacan
• Lyz Lenz - Belabored: A Vindication of the Rights of Pregnant Women
• Elisa Gabbert - The Unreality of Memory
• Margot Livesey - The Boy in the Field

Transcript Episode Credits

• Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
• Music: Podington Bear
• Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo