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Matthew Stadler

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Matthew Stadler

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1959-01-01
Nationality
United States
Languages
English
Residence History
Seattle → Portland, Oregon → Groningen, Netherlands

Career

Occupations
author, novelist, editor, publisher
Active Years
1990-2024
Affiliations
Publication Studio, Clear Cut Press, The Stranger
Influenced By
Rem Koolhaas, Lisa Robertson, Thomas Sieverts
Influenced
Edmund White

Education

Columbia University School of the Arts
Country: United States

Awards

Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction
1999
Work: Allan Stein
Category: Best Gay Novel
Organization: Lambda Literary Foundation
Result: winner
Guggenheim Fellowship
Organization: Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Result: winner
Whiting Award
Organization: Whiting Foundation
Result: winner
Hinda Rosenthal Prize
Organization: American Academy of Arts and Letters
Result: winner
Howard Foundation Fellowship
Organization: Brown University
Result: winner
United States Artists Fellowship
2006
Organization: United States Artists
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Landscape: Memory

1990 novel

A novel focusing on children, sexuality, and art.

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The Dissolution of Nicholas Dee

1993 novel

A novel focusing on children, sexuality, and art.

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The Sex Offender

1994 novel

A novel focusing on children, sexuality, and art.

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Allan Stein

1999 gay novel

A highly acclaimed gay novel.

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Chloe Jarren’s La Cucaracha

2011 cover novel

A cover novel published by Publication Studio.

Minders

2015 dystopian novel

A dystopian novel.

Bibliography

  • Landscape: Memory
  • The Dissolution of Nicholas Dee
  • The Sex Offender
  • Allan Stein
  • Chloe Jarren’s La Cucaracha
  • Deventer
  • Minders

Style & Themes

Literary Style
lyric supplenessrestraintmandarin American casualness
Recurring Motifs
sprawlurbanismpublic space

Legacy

American author known for novels on children, sexuality, and art, as well as essays on sprawl, urbanism, and publishing. Co-founded Publication Studio and received several prestigious awards.

Archives

  • Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University

Quotes

  • Sprawl is the disappearance of an idea
    Source: Where We Live Now (2008)

Trivia

  • Gay writer
  • Pioneer of independent publishing
  • Prolific on urban theory