Matthue Roth

Matthue Roth

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Movin’ On Up – To Flatbush

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We’re trading Brooklyns, moving from the thriving, throbbing 24-hour Crown Heights – where the noise of blasting reggae at 3 AM is matched only by the noise of blasting cantorial music at 3 AM – trading it in for the placid, tree-lined, and, yes, backyard-filled streets of Flatbush. My Hasidic friends think I’m selling out and moving to a Modern Orthodox neighborhood. My non-Hasidic friends think I’m selling out and moving to the suburbs.

March 30, 2010 Boroughing, Classic, Guest Authors
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Crushes on Cities

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The way some writers obsess about relationships — whether it’s poets reading poems about how they want to sleep with another poet in the audience, or novelists writing thinly-disguised (or not-disguised) accounts of their trysts/flings/marriages — I obsess about cities.

March 23, 2010 Boroughing, Guest Authors
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Tznius Envy

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There was a crazy Nor’easter over the weekend, and we had to go to Jersey – an activity rarely on any Brooklynite’s top ten list, and especially not on a rainy Saturday night. But there was a family bar mitzvah, and we are nothing if not devoted to the family.

March 15, 2010 Boroughing, Classic, Guest Authors
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Video: Live Reading of ‘Good Thing I Don’t Touch Girls Or I’d Touch You’

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Matthue Roth is the author, most recently, of Losers, a geek-punk novel about Russian Jewish immigrant hackers, and the memoir Yom Kippur a Go-Go. Here he reads a poem called “Good Thing I Don’t Touch Girls Or I’d Touch You” at at Soda Bar in Prospect Heights.

March 9, 2010 Authors Speak, Multi/Media, The Read, Video
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Geek Camouflage

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Hasidic Jews might not be the number one most-fetishized religious group by the media – my Muslim punk rock friends would probably win that particular medal – but, dammit, we get our fair share of attention.

March 8, 2010 Boroughing, Classic, Guest Authors
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