Matt Weinstock

Matt Weinstock lives in Brooklyn. He has contributed to the New Yorker Page-Turner, the Paris Review Daily, and The Rumpus.

The 100-Year-Old Who Taught Garbo to Waltz
Shep Houghton had a 50-year career as an actor in Hollywood, from silents in the 1920s through the gory 1970s. He retired almost 40 years ago. Today he turns 100....
Matt WeinstockJun 4, 2014
The Booby-Trapped Life of Rita Johnson
Images courtesy Barbara Coulter. IT’S ALWAYS SEEMED ODD to me that no romantic comedy has featured a meet-cute between two people flirting over a celebrity’s corpse. Last summer I convinced a date to attend Marvin Hamlisch’s wake, and ...
Matt WeinstockAug 13, 2013

The 100-Year-Old Who Taught Garbo to Waltz