Brendan Mathews

Brendan Mathews is the author of The World of Tomorrow (Little, Brown & Co.), which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and named an Indie Next Great Read and an Editors' Choice by the New York Times Book Review. Little, Brown and Company has just published his debut story collection, This Is Not A Love Song. He lives in western Massachusetts with his wife and their four children.

On Kate Bush’s Radical Interpretation of Wuthering Heights

Or, How to Teach English with a Music Video

February 13, 2019 By Brendan Mathews

Taking Inspiration from my Grandparents’ Wartime Love Letters

"No Heart-Emoji Could Ever Mean as Much"

December 22, 2017 By Brendan Mathews

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