James Purdy: Life of a Contrarian Writer

Matthew Stadler is the author of&nbsp;Allan Stein,&nbsp;Landscape: Memory, The Dissolution of Nicholas Dee,&nbsp;and&nbsp;The Sex Offender. He is the recipient of Guggenheim and Ingram-Merrill fellowships, a Whiting Writer’s Award, and a United States Artists fellowship in the inaugural round. He edits the&nbsp;<a href="https://publicationstudio.biz/books/?q=Fellow+Travelers">Fellow Travelers series</a>&nbsp;of books and is founder and editor of&nbsp;<a href="https://thegoatpol.org/">The GOAT PoL</a>. He lives in Rotterdam and Seattle.

Matthew Stadler

All of the Monsters (In Which I Accuse James Purdy of Throwing My Four-Year-Old Child Down Two Flights of Stairs Using His Powers of Telekinesis): On Michael Snyder’s “James Purdy”

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn

Biography &amp; Autobiography

"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes

Literary Fiction

Matthew Stadler is the author of&nbsp;Allan Stein,&nbsp;Landscape: Memory, The Dissolution of Nicholas Dee,&nbsp;and&nbsp;The Sex Offender. He is the recipient of Guggenheim and Ingram-Merrill fellowships, a Whiting Writer’s Award, and a United States Artists fellowship in the inaugural round. He edits the&nbsp;<a href="https://publicationstudio.biz/books/?q=Fellow+Travelers">Fellow Travelers series</a>&nbsp;of books and is founder and editor of&nbsp;<a href="https://thegoatpol.org/">The GOAT PoL</a>. He lives in Rotterdam and Seattle.