Spotlight On…

Today, Ethel Rohan brings Matthew Salesses to the Dark Sky stage.

Thank you, Matt, for your generous and insightful responses. I especially appreciated your frank thoughts on the internet and on online and print publication. I look forward to reading The Self-Beating Drum and watching Lost in Translation.

I note you were born in Korea. In O’Kim’s bar, Seoul, there’s video of me doing an Irish jig on the stage, in their surveillance camera archives. But that’s another story for another time. For now, the spotlight’s on Matthew Salesses. Enjoy.

– Ethel Rohan

Writing wise, where are you now? Where are you going?

I have two small books in development. The first is about an island on which people get epidemics like laziness, memory loss, magic, charisma. The wonderful people at PANK are doing that one, along with little books by Nicolle Elizabeth and yourself (hooray!). The second is about a POW after the Korean War. At the end of the war, a few Americans stayed in North Korea. This guy was one of them. Later he went back to America, got a few months furlough, married and had a honeymoon, and finally was arrested as a traitor. The novella is coming out from Flatmancrooked, who are doing some really exciting things.

I’m also working on a story about an adopted boy who goes to Korea and meets his birth mother without knowing who she is, and on a co-writing experiment with Nicolle Elizabeth.

Then there’s a novel that I’m hoping to finish final-ish revisions of soon. That’s the big project.

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