Matthew Battles

• Gender: Male
• Occupation: writer
• Location: Jamaica Plain : Massachusetts

When you've got water stuck in your ear, how do you get it out?

I do the watusi.

Interests

• my family
• literature
• cultural history
• the natural world
• geography
• music
• trivium
• quadrivium
• rhetoric

Favorite Music

• Bob Dylan
• Tom Waits
• Arvo Pärt
• Django Rheinhardt
• Carter Family
• John Coltrane
• Miles Davis
• Tom Jobim
• Lo'Jo
• Nick Cave
• Paul Simon
• Dick Dale
• Sam Philips
• Edith Piaf

Favorite Books

• Ficciones
• Illness as Metaphor
• Austerlitz
• The Oddyssey
• The Complete Poems of Paul Celan
• The Animal Family
• Finn Family Moomintroll
• Moby Dick
• Nature
• Walden
• Leaves of Grass
• Day of the Locust
• Dharma Bums
• Twice-Told Tales
• Hamlet

My Blogs	Team Members
urge of the letter
Running with the Dead
flyleaf
Unquiet History