Location: Australia
Member Since: June 03, 2011
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Matthew Asprey


Biography

MATTHEW ASPREY is a writer from Sydney, Australia. His non–fiction has appeared at PopMatters.com and in academic journals, his short stories in Island, Extempore, and Total Cardboard. His novellas 'Red Hills of Africa' (2009) and 'Sonny's Guerrillas' (2011) are available in paperback and e–book. His Sydney–set historical novel 'Murphy and the Baker', a work–in–progress, has been excerpted in the anthology Nth Degree (2010).

Where to find Matthew Asprey online

Website: http://www.matthewasprey.com
Blog: http://matthewasprey.wordpress.com

Where to buy in print

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Books

Contrappasso Magazine, Issue 2: International Writing    by Matthew Asprey
Price: $5.00 USD. 104750 words. Published on November 12, 2012. Fiction.
CONTRAPPASSO is an independent biannual magazine of international writing published in Sydney, Australia. Issue 2 contains interviews with Elmore Leonard & Clive Sinclair. Contributors: Mimi Lipson, John Salazar, David Thomson, Paul Pax Andrews, Peter Doyle, Antigone Kefala, Chris Andrews, Mark O’Connor, Paolo Totaro, Paolo Fabrizio Iacuzzi, Floyd Salas, and others...
Angelique in San Francisco: A Novella    by Matthew Asprey
Price: Free! 21320 words. Published on November 9, 2012. Fiction.
0.5 star(3.50 from 2 reviews)
Set entirely at night in a repressive atmosphere of Patriot Act paranoia, Matthew Asprey's 2012 novella 'Angelique in San Francisco' dramatizes a young woman's quest to discover her heritage.
Contrappasso Magazine, Issue 1: International Writing    by Matthew Asprey
Price: $5.00 USD. 47990 words. Published on June 16, 2012. Fiction.
CONTRAPPASSO is an independent biannual magazine of international writing published in Sydney, Australia. Issue 1 features James Crumley, Lester Goran, Floyd Salas, James Scott Linville, Noel King, Vanessa Berry, Mimi Lipson, Peter Doyle, and poetry by Elias Greig, Pip Muratore, Lindsay Tuggle, Tessa Lunney, Chris Oakey, Fiona Yardley, and Paolo Totaro.
To Murder My Love Is A Crime!: Stories of Desperate Men    by Matthew Asprey
Price: Free! 14950 words. Published on December 19, 2011. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review)
Three comic stories by Matthew Asprey. 'Villa des Bijoux' recounts the obsessive hunt for a location used in Alfred Hitchcock’s 'To Catch A Thief' (1955) on the Cote d’Azur. 'Gut Bucket Blues' was originally published in the Australian jazz journal Extempore. 'To Murder My Love Is A Crime!' is a noirish comedy of obsession, frustrated desire, and Mr Donut doughnuts.
Red Hills of Africa (a novella)    by Matthew Asprey
Price: $2.99 USD. 12350 words. Published on June 10, 2011. Fiction.
0.5 star(4.50 from 2 reviews)
'Red Hills of Africa' is Matthew Asprey's comic novella of dangerous erotic entanglement and literary obsession. From Madrid to Marrakech and onwards into the Atlas Mountains, 'Red Hills of Africa' dramatizes the allure of literary pilgrimage as well as the dangerous pursuit of the pleasures of transgression. It also fondly explores the paradoxes of Ernest Hemingway.
Sonny's Guerrillas (a novella)    by Matthew Asprey
Price: $2.99 USD. 17520 words. Published on June 3, 2011. Fiction.
0.5 star(4.50 from 2 reviews)
Restless and impoverished, a young Australian composer seizes the opportunity to write the soundtrack for an ultra-low budget and politically explosive historical film about the Greek Civil War. 'Sonny's Guerrilas' is a novella dramatizing the political, artistic and erotic adventures of a multi-national twentysomething generation drifting through an unsettled globalised Europe.

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