Matthew Stadler is the author of five novels, Chloe Jarren's La Cucaracha (2011), Allan Stein (1999),The Sex Offender (1994), The Dissolution of Nicholas Dee (1993), and Landscape: Memory (1990), and several books of non-fiction. He is the recipient of Guggenheim, Ingram-Merrill , and United States Artists fellowships. He was the literary editor of Nest magazine and co-founder of Clear Cut Press and of Publication Studio. He lives in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
“Equal parts Kafka, Burgess, and Brazil, Matthew Stadler's novel is beautifully morbid. The eloquent, florid prose in which Mr. Uh Uh describes his passions gives him an overwrought nobility . . . Stadler's narrative weaves in and out of humor, grandiosity, fantasy, and sentiment with rare grace and cleverness.” —The Village Voice [on The Sex Offender]
“What makes Allan Stein unusual is the lyric suppleness and restraint of the writing . . . refined but deceptively offhand . . . The book may bear the faint marks of . . . fussy experimentalism, but it is powered by passion.” —Edmund White, The New York Times Book Review
“Matthew Stadler has perfect pitch. Allan Stein sings with the same lucid prose that graced his previous works . . . Stadler's clear writing carries a story about one of our grittier taboos; adult male sexual desire for teenage boys. The book succeeds in its exploration of such controversial content in large part because of Stadler's elegant writing and unrelenting candor.” —Judy Doenges, The Seattle Times
“The Dissolution of Nicholas Dee renders Matthew Stadler the best gay writer of our time.” —Robert Drake, The Gay Cannon
Selected Works
