Matt Greene
@arealmattgreene.bsky.social
Van Occupanther Party Liaison. New novel, THE DEFINITIONS, coming 2025 with Dead Ink / Henry Holt
https://linktr.ee/arealmattgreene
https://linktr.ee/arealmattgreene
The thing about getting an ASD diagnosis for your 9-year-old after a two year wait is it's a lot like a fireman telling you your house is on fire: you're grateful for the expert opinion but it isn't primarily a diagnostic problem.
February 6, 2026 at 8:44 PM
The thing about getting an ASD diagnosis for your 9-year-old after a two year wait is it's a lot like a fireman telling you your house is on fire: you're grateful for the expert opinion but it isn't primarily a diagnostic problem.
No Other Choice. Can only speak to the first hour but that was proper, proper dogshit
February 4, 2026 at 9:36 PM
No Other Choice. Can only speak to the first hour but that was proper, proper dogshit
Absolutely *zero* interest in defending Chomsky but this is also the email I send if I've had the worst night of my life and have no intention of ever seeing this person again
at the protest on Saturday i saw someone with a faded "Read Noam Chomsky" t-shirt and that day i, in fact, had
February 4, 2026 at 8:31 AM
Absolutely *zero* interest in defending Chomsky but this is also the email I send if I've had the worst night of my life and have no intention of ever seeing this person again
Thought of a dumb football joke. Players celebrating in front of booing fans after a three nil loss. Commentator: "This team really don't know when they're beaten"
February 4, 2026 at 8:27 AM
Thought of a dumb football joke. Players celebrating in front of booing fans after a three nil loss. Commentator: "This team really don't know when they're beaten"
Veganism severely tested this morning by the copy on the side of this carton of Oatly and the anti-Babe effect of the Peppa Pig episode the three-year-old is currently inhaling
February 3, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Veganism severely tested this morning by the copy on the side of this carton of Oatly and the anti-Babe effect of the Peppa Pig episode the three-year-old is currently inhaling
The medial "t" in glottal stop is a good bit
February 1, 2026 at 11:48 AM
The medial "t" in glottal stop is a good bit
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I poured my heart out about Marty Supreme, Jewish identity, why the Old Testament isn’t the same book as the Torah and what it takes to survive trauma
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
look at me. I’m here. I’m the ultimate product of Hitler’s defeat
Marty Supreme is the most intensely Jewish movie I’ve ever seen in my life, and I ended up writing 5,000 words about it. buckle up.
open.substack.com
February 1, 2026 at 7:24 AM
I poured my heart out about Marty Supreme, Jewish identity, why the Old Testament isn’t the same book as the Torah and what it takes to survive trauma
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
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What we are seeing in their case, as Kidron says, is a “massive transfer of wealth from creators to corporations and from the UK to the US”.
www.thetimes.com/article/3c0c...
www.thetimes.com/article/3c0c...
All 2.4m of Britain’s creative workers are at risk — and we know why
A new report into the impact of AI on the creative sector makes for apocalyptic reading. The government must act now
www.thetimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 11:42 AM
What we are seeing in their case, as Kidron says, is a “massive transfer of wealth from creators to corporations and from the UK to the US”.
www.thetimes.com/article/3c0c...
www.thetimes.com/article/3c0c...
Children are the ultimate oulipian constraint
January 28, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Children are the ultimate oulipian constraint
The thing I really don't think you can appreciate unless you have kids and jobs (plural) yourself is the way every day escalates and escalates like a fucking Safdie brothers film
January 27, 2026 at 8:50 PM
The thing I really don't think you can appreciate unless you have kids and jobs (plural) yourself is the way every day escalates and escalates like a fucking Safdie brothers film
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Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
Absolutely lost it remembering how hilariously shit the Australian Traitors was. Episode 2 the task was 'right, lads, swimming race' and one of the contestants tried to drown someone. Funniest shit I've ever seen.
January 24, 2026 at 10:24 AM
Absolutely lost it remembering how hilariously shit the Australian Traitors was. Episode 2 the task was 'right, lads, swimming race' and one of the contestants tried to drown someone. Funniest shit I've ever seen.
Apropos nothing in particular, I hate the way as a culture we talk about art - spoiler warnings, endings explained etc. A story is not a puzzle or merely a delivery mechanism for information, it's an experience. Its meaning cannot be reduced. The way we talk about stories is so infantile. I hate it.
January 23, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Apropos nothing in particular, I hate the way as a culture we talk about art - spoiler warnings, endings explained etc. A story is not a puzzle or merely a delivery mechanism for information, it's an experience. Its meaning cannot be reduced. The way we talk about stories is so infantile. I hate it.
I, a person who is allergic to coins and eats wasps for sustenance, find this analogy offensive and flawed
who the fuck WANTS their posts to go viral, have you ever had that actually happen? it's like getting a winning pull on a slot machine if wasps started pouring out the bottom instead of quarters
January 20, 2026 at 7:19 AM
I, a person who is allergic to coins and eats wasps for sustenance, find this analogy offensive and flawed
And Uncle Boomee who CAN recall his past lives
January 16, 2026 at 8:42 AM
And Uncle Boomee who CAN recall his past lives
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Noooooooooo!
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia written by volunteers, is embracing artificial intelligence to mark its 25th anniversary.
Wikipedia unveils new AI licensing deals as it marks 25th birthday
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia written by volunteers, is embracing artificial intelligence to mark its 25th anniversary.
bit.ly
January 15, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Noooooooooo!
If your film doesn't feature a scene of two female characters discussing something other than how to make a white sauce then it's failed the Bechamel Test
January 13, 2026 at 12:28 PM
If your film doesn't feature a scene of two female characters discussing something other than how to make a white sauce then it's failed the Bechamel Test
What if Mein Kampf is just a preamble to his grandma's recipe for strawberry cheesecake?
January 13, 2026 at 10:58 AM
What if Mein Kampf is just a preamble to his grandma's recipe for strawberry cheesecake?
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Afternoon all, here's our contribution to #MondayReads!
@arealmattgreene.bsky.social's THE DEFINITIONS has been selected as @npr.org's BOOK OF THE DAY.
Don't miss out on this "utterly haunting" (Chicago Review of Books) dystopia.
Grab a copy👇:
tinyurl.com/35uvtdpd
#Booksky💙📚 #WritingCommunity
@arealmattgreene.bsky.social's THE DEFINITIONS has been selected as @npr.org's BOOK OF THE DAY.
Don't miss out on this "utterly haunting" (Chicago Review of Books) dystopia.
Grab a copy👇:
tinyurl.com/35uvtdpd
#Booksky💙📚 #WritingCommunity
January 12, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Afternoon all, here's our contribution to #MondayReads!
@arealmattgreene.bsky.social's THE DEFINITIONS has been selected as @npr.org's BOOK OF THE DAY.
Don't miss out on this "utterly haunting" (Chicago Review of Books) dystopia.
Grab a copy👇:
tinyurl.com/35uvtdpd
#Booksky💙📚 #WritingCommunity
@arealmattgreene.bsky.social's THE DEFINITIONS has been selected as @npr.org's BOOK OF THE DAY.
Don't miss out on this "utterly haunting" (Chicago Review of Books) dystopia.
Grab a copy👇:
tinyurl.com/35uvtdpd
#Booksky💙📚 #WritingCommunity
Disappointing. "Treblinkandyoullmissit" was right there.
January 11, 2026 at 10:26 AM
Disappointing. "Treblinkandyoullmissit" was right there.
Very belatedly reading Crossroads and you know what Franzen does *so* well at his best? He gives his fiction the quality of really good gossip.
January 11, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Very belatedly reading Crossroads and you know what Franzen does *so* well at his best? He gives his fiction the quality of really good gossip.
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Delighted to have received a grant from a submerging writers foundation, which supports mid-career authors while they age, procrastinate and feel their early promise ebb away. Grants like this are essential to the production of unmarketable work of limited appeal.
January 8, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Delighted to have received a grant from a submerging writers foundation, which supports mid-career authors while they age, procrastinate and feel their early promise ebb away. Grants like this are essential to the production of unmarketable work of limited appeal.
Can't get over the fact a 6-year-old was dropped off at nursery and will never see their mother again because she attempted to perform a three-point turn and because a racist president is historically unpopular. Imagine trying to make sense of that. Imagine explaining that to your kid.
January 8, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Can't get over the fact a 6-year-old was dropped off at nursery and will never see their mother again because she attempted to perform a three-point turn and because a racist president is historically unpopular. Imagine trying to make sense of that. Imagine explaining that to your kid.
Went on @npr.org to discuss Trump's extrajudicial kidnapping of the leader of a sovereign nation. Not really, it was to promote my book, quite ineptly www.npr.org/2026/01/04/n...
'The Definitions' novel takes a haunting look at identity, language and control
Author Matt Greene on his new dystopian novel 'The Definitions' about life after a virus wipes people's memories.
www.npr.org
January 5, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Went on @npr.org to discuss Trump's extrajudicial kidnapping of the leader of a sovereign nation. Not really, it was to promote my book, quite ineptly www.npr.org/2026/01/04/n...
A good dystopia would be if half the things people claim are obligatory online actually were
January 2, 2026 at 6:45 PM
A good dystopia would be if half the things people claim are obligatory online actually were