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Matthew Gasda
The Sleeperstraces the intersecting paths of four New Yorkers as they confront the disintegration of their carefully constructed social identities.
Dan, a leftist blogger and academic, risks everything for an…
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Four plays from acclaimed playwright and downtown impresario Matthew Gasda.
New essays, poems, stories by .
Mike Crumplar Stephanie Yue Duhem Alex Perez August Lamm (also contributed the cover image) Tom Will Chris R. Morgan A.M. Hickman Calla Selicious Alice…
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a verb trying to find a tense yes like a tempo it’s more like 9/8 than the old 4/4 today trying to transcribe this feeling of having fractured myself along…
An original drama about friendship, death, and beauty.
The lyrical, freewheeling novel (or anti-novel) by Matthew Gasda about the ecstatic search for lost love amidst the spiritual depravity of bohemian Brooklyn.
Matthew Gasda’s gorgeously contrapuntal Orchid Elegy is a long poem that, like a fugue, moves at once backwards and forwards, joining an impulse towards restless exploration and budding divagation with…
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An anthology of new writing by humans who write and write well.
There’s no such thing as a simple desire.
SUNY Oswego Theater Department has commissioned rising young NYC playwright Matthew Gasda to re-conceive and write a new translation/adaptation of THE BACCHAE by Euripides for the contemporary stage.
This is a book of collected poetry by Matthew Gasda. Poems were originally written between 2011 and 2021, some of which were previously published. All have been edited for the…
In Minotaur a family gathers on Christmas Eve. Like all families, this family holds itself together with lies, illusions, cliches. Over the course of a night and day, those lies…
When the sweeping force of poetry runs into the wall of one family’s incommunicability, something has to give way. Or, at least, such is the premise of Denmark, an ensemble…
This stream-of-consciousness, poetically and philosophically charged novel enriches, and expands, the consciousness of its readers.
A collection of new poetry, fiction, and critical essays compiled by Serpent Club Press, a small, anonymously run press in NYC.
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This collection contains the plays Dimes Square, Quartet, Berlin Story, and Minotaur by dramatist Matthew Gasda, following his meteoric rise in New York's downtown scene.
Matthew L Gasda
In a word: tragedy–the art of reckoning with fate. Which is what By Morning is about: the grief that comes with having a fate. Circumstances that cannot be avoided or…