Chicken Information on Pedestal Magazine

Nathan Leslie was kind enough to interview me for Pedestal Magazine

Nathan: There must be a traumatic chicken scene in your past. Your characters are always eating

Matt: I probably ate too much chicken at one point in my life, and I really got sick of chicken. Poor chickens. My family had chickens in our backyard. We ate the eggs; we didn’t kill the chickens—although somebody did. If you’ve ever met a chicken, they’re not a good animal. They’re just not. There’s nothing to say that’s good about chickens. They’re stupid. There’s nothing to cuddle. They crap all over themselves. They have no personalities. And then you think: I’m surviving on this thing. I mean, what is a chicken for? That should be the real topic of your investigation here today.