Matthew Goodman
Matthew Goodman’s book, The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-century New York, will be published by Basic Books in December. A work of narrative non-fiction, it uses novelistic techniques to tell the entirely true story of a newspaper hoax in New York in the year 1835 – a hoax that convinced much of the city that life had been discovered on the moon – one that involved both P. T. Barnum and Edgar Allan Poe and helped create the newspaper industry as we know it today. His previous book, Jewish Food: The World at Table, was published by HarperCollins in 2005. Combining dozens of essays with nearly 200 recipes, it explored the history and culture of Jewish communities around the world through the food they have made. Goodman was for many years the "Food Maven" columnist for the Forward newspaper, and his essays and short stories have appeared in The American Scholar, the Harvard Review, Bon Appetit, the Utne Reader, the Sewanee Review, and many other publications, and have been cited for Special Mention in the Best American Short Story and Pushcart Prize series. He has been a long-time teacher of writing and literature in the undergraduate program at Vermont College, and has also taught at Tufts University and Emerson College. He lives with his wife and two children in Brooklyn, New York.
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