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May, 2013
Q delivers the keynote address at Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia’s 4th Annual Building HOPE Luncheon at the Crystal Tea Room
Q answers fan questions on Goodreads: Part One, Part Two
THE GOOD LUCK OF RIGHT NOW Latvian translation rights sell to J.L.V.
FORGIVE ME, LEONARD PEACOCK Polish translation rights sell to Otwarte
THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK Norwegian translation rights sell to Cappelen Damm, Norway
SORTA LIKE A ROCK STAR Polish translation rights sell to Otwarte
April, 2013
THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK / O Lado Bom da Vida becomes a number 1 bestseller in Brazil
The Weinstein Company options FORGIVE ME, LEONARD PEACOCK; James Ponsoldt to adapt
SILVER LININGS German translation debuts at # 49 on the hardcover fiction bestseller list of Der Spiegel
Garth Stein, New York Times bestselling author of THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN, blurbs THE GOOD LUCK OF RIGHT NOW
Q is the 2013 Newburyport Literary Festival honoree – Newburyport, MA
“We went through something more important than writing a book together,” Evan Roskos and Q on their attempt at a collaborative project, friendship, mental health, and the writing life – The Philadelphia Inquirer
Q’s old La Salle townhousemate, the talented and kind Brian Howard, writes about him for Philadelphia Magazine
THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK Romanian translation rights sell to POLIROM Publishing House and Vietnamese rights to Tre Publishing House
March, 2013
THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK climbs to # 3 on THE NEW YORK TIMES Best Seller Paperback Trade list and # 6 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list
Q is nominated for Time’s 100 Poll of “the most influential people in the world.”
DreamWorks taps Mike White to adapt THE GOOD LUCK OF RIGHT NOW
Q speaks at the University of North Carolina Wilmington
The Library of Congress invites Q to participate at the 2013 National Book Festival
Q delivers the keynote address at the 23rd Annual Betty Curtis Worcester County Young Writers’ Conference at St. John’s High School Shrewsbury, MA
FORGIVE ME, LEONARD PEACOCK German translation rights sell to DTV, Portuguese (Brazil) rights to Intrínseca, Italian rights to Salani
THE GOOD LUCK OF RIGHT NOW Greek translation rights sell to Ikaros Publishing
BOY21 German translation rights sell to DTV
Jay Asher and A.S. King blurb FORGIVE ME, LEONARD PEACOCK
February, 2013
Q attends The 85th Academy Awards. Jennifer Lawrence wins the Best Actress Oscar for playing Tiffany in THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
BOY21 is named a finalist for the L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE – Young Adult Literature
THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK climbs the New York Times Best Sellers lists: #9 trade paperback #18 hard/paperback #6 ebook #7 print/ebook
Q is interviewed by CNN
Charlie Rose and Gayle King interview Q on CBS This Morning
Q makes an appearance on the TODAY Show with David O. Russell and Jenna Bush Hager (Q at 2:30)
‘Sometimes the Right People Show Up’ an essay by Q on The Huffington Post
Entertainment Weekly interviews Q
“If I didn’t have depressive episodes, I wouldn’t be a novelist.” Q and David O. Russell are interviewed by USA Today
THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK / O Lado Bom Da Vida hits multiple Brazilian best seller lists, including Veja
David O. Russell wins the BAFTA Best Adapted Screenplay Award for SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
Boy21 makes YALSA 2013 Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults
Q does a two-book deal with Picador UK for THE GOOD LUCK OF RIGHT NOW and his next unnamed novel
THE GOOD LUCK OF RIGHT NOW Spanish translation rights sell to Destino, Serbian rights sell to Vulkan, Russian rights sell to Azbooka, Korean rights to JoonAng Books, Italian rights to Salani, Polish rights to Otwarte, Turkish rights to Feniks, Complex Chinese rights to Marco Polo
FORGIVE ME, LEONARD PEACOCK Spanish translation rights sell to Destino, UK rights sell to Headline, Turkish rights sell to Feniks
BOY21 Polish translation rights sell to Otwarte
Q interviewed in San Francisco by Public Radio Exchange
Q is interviewed by The Script Lab
“You’ve got to figure out what works, not what doesn’t work.” Q interviewed by two.one.five magazine
January, 2013
Q does a two-book deal with HarperCollins (US and Canada) and the film rights for the first novel–THE GOOD LUCK OF RIGHT NOW–go to DreamWorks
Silver Linings Playbook receives EIGHT Oscar Nominations: Adapted Screenplay (David O. Russell), Director (David O. Russell), Best Picture, Actress (Jennifer Lawrence), Actor (Bradley Cooper), Supporting Actress (Jacki Weaver), Supporting Actor (Robert De Niro), and Film Editing
THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK makes the USA TODAY Best-Selling Books list
Jennifer Lawrence wins Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role at the SAG Awards and a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy (Tiffany, SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK)
Silver Linings Playbook wins Critics’ Choice Awards for Comedy, Actor in a comedy (Bradley Cooper), Actress in a comedy (Jennifer Lawrence), and Acting ensemble
David O. Russell and Q are nominated for the USC Scripter
THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK & THE GOOD LUCK OF RIGHT NOW German translation rights sell to Rowohlt Verlag – Kindler, Hebrew rights sell to Achuzat Bayit, Dutch rights sell to Xander
THE GOOD LUCK OF RIGHT NOW Norwegian translation rights sell to Cappelen Damm, Portuguese (Brazil) rights sell to Intrinseca, Portuguese (Portugal) sell to Editorial Presenca S.A.
BOY21 is named a Cybils: 2012 Finalist
THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK Swedish translation rights sell to Suntower Communications, who also will distribute the movie in Sweden. Film/book is called “You Drive Me Crazy” in Swedish; Polish rights sell to Otwarte; Estonian rights sell to Tänapäev; Bulgarian rights sell to EMAS Publishing House; Korean rights sell to Nexus; Lithuanian rights sell to Baltos Lankos
The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Karen Heller writes about Q and SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK (movie) calling it “arguably the best film ever made about our region.”
“Of course, it’s thrilling to see something I created go that far, and the character that Jennifer Lawrence played is something I invented out of thin air.” Q in the Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Q is on B101 Philadelphia Morning Show With Tiffany and Michael
December, 2012
Kirkus names BOY21 a Best Teen book of 2012
A Q essay appears on Farrar, Straus and Giroux’s Work In Progress: How to Publish a Movie Tie-In Edition in Five Easy Steps (Steps In Reverse Order)
“Being an Eagles fan is good training for striving and never getting there.” Boston’s NPR news station, WBUR, interviews Q
“I have anxiety dreams…” Picador UK interviews Q
“…when you put an agenda on art, you’re missing the point.” Forbes interviews Q
“‘Someone told me that Philadelphia is a left hook town,’ he said, chuckling. ‘My brother has started calling me a ‘left hook writer.’ I think Rocky is part of my DNA.’” Jersey Man interviews Q
November, 2012
Silver Linings Playbook hits the theaters
Q and Al attend the NYC SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK premiere
Q and David O. Russell are interviewed by The Wall Street Journal
Q’s teacher-to-fiction-writer life story makes the front page of The Philadelphia Inquirer
Q is profiled in The Boston Globe
Blackstone Audio (producers of the TSLP audio book) interview Q
Q speaks at the The Arkansas Curriculum Conference Little Rock, Arkansas
BOY21 makes the 2013 Texas Tayshas Reading List
Q’s story makes South Jersey Magazine
Q attends NCTE 12 in Las Vegas
Q speaks to the students to New Hope-Solebury High School
October, 2012
NPR makes THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK Movie Tie-In an Outstanding Softcover Releases pick
WHYY’s Marty Moss-Coane interviews Q
Q attends the SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK Philadelphia Film Festival Premiere with David O. Russell
(Photo by Chris Barrett)
Q attends SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK screenings in Boston, Dallas, Minneapolis, and Phoenix, answering many many fun interview questions along the way (post-screening video interview from Dallas, radio interview from Phoenix)
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK movie poster & Q stood on the giant blue star of the Dallas Cowboys’ field. (Q spread his arms wide like T.O.)
Sara Zarr interviews Q on This Creative Life
THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK Movie Tie-In is published by Sarah Crichton Books / Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Czech rights for the SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK sell to Euromedia Group
Slovak rights for the SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK sell to Ikar
Japanese rights for the SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK sell to Shueisha
September, 2012
The LA Times reveals the FORGIVE ME, LEONARD PEACOCK cover (Q’s next YA out 8/13):
Q is interviewed by the LA Times
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK wins the Toronto International Film Festival Audience Award
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK movie poster is unveiled!
July, 2012
Portuguese rights (in Portugal) for the SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK sell to Presenca
Turkish rights for the SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK sell to Feniks Books
Korean rights for BOY21 sell to Our Value Corporation
Brazilian/Exclusive World Portuguese rights (excluding Portugal, Angola and Mozambique) for the SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK sell to Intrínseca
June, 2012
The official SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK trailer is released!
Hungarian rights to TSLP sell to Kepzo
Spanish rights to TSLP sell to DeBolsillo, a Random House Mondadori imprint
May, 2012
The Boston Globe reviews BOY21 and calls Q a “master”
Sorta Like A Rock Star is named a 2013 Garden State Teen Book Awards Nominee & a 2013 Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Readers Choice Award Nominee
Q participates in the Philadelphia Free Library‘s Teen Author Series and the Gaithersburg Book Festival
April, 2012
SORTA LIKE A ROCK STAR is named a Washington State Evergreen Young Adult Book Award Nominee for 2012-13
Q speaks at the Texas Library Association Conference with Allen Zadoff, John Green, and Bill Willingham at the Guys Read Panel
And hosts a Little Brown dinner with Sara Zarr
Q speaks at the NAMI PA Montgomery County’s annual membership meeting and awards dinner. NAMI is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization that provides support, education and advocacy to those affected by mental illness and their families
Q and Brian Meehl host a panel on quirky characters at the Newburyport Literary Festival Newburyport, Massachusetts
Watcha Reading Now interviews Q
Q speaks at The Gale Free Library in Holden, Massachusetts. The Daily Holden covers
March, 2012
BOY21 is a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
BOY21 is called “…beautiful…a first-rate work of art” by The New York Times Book Review (reviewed by Matt de la Peña)
Q delivers a speech to the Michigan Library Association and takes home their 2011 Thumbs Up! Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teen Literature
Q speaks with the students and faculty of La Salle University. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Q is Little Flower Catholic High School‘s Career Day Speaker. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Q visits Huron High School and Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Interviewed by The Debutante Ball
Q launches BOY21 at Collingswood High School. Collingswood High School represent!
BOY21 is published
Q is featured in Worcester’s Telegram and Gazette
Q featured on The Courier Post Online’s DOWN THE PIKE
CollingswoodPatch interviews Q
February, 2012
“AS A WRITER, Matthew Quick has traveled from Collingswood, N.J., to outer space and inner teenage psyche.” Philadelphia Daily News interviews Q
FOREVER REWRITING interviews Q here
Introducing BREAK THESE RULES. Q will be anthologized along with Sara Zarr, A.S. King, Francisco X. Stork, Josh Berk, Lisa Schroeder, Jordan Sonnenblick, and many other YA writers. All royalties will be donated to The Children’s Defense Fund. Props to Luke Reynolds for thinking this up and seeing it through.
Q is interviewed by the Gaithersburg Book Festival, where he will appear on Saturday May 19th
Introducing FORGIVE ME, LEONARD PEACOCK (Q’s third YA novel). From Pub Lunch: Author of SORTA LIKE A ROCK STAR and BOY21 Matthew Quick’s FORGIVE ME, LEONARD PEACOCK, which follows 18-year-old Leonard through his decision to kill his former best friend and then himself, and the hope he finds when he least expects it, all in one 24-hour period, to Alvina Ling at Little, Brown Children’s, for publication in Spring 2013, by Douglas Stewart at Sterling Lord Literistic (NA).
The BOY21 book trailer drops
Q is interviewed by STACKED
January, 2012
Boy21 earns the elusive Kirkus Review STAR
THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK gets plugged on The Golden Globes
November, 2011
Q speaks at The ALAN 2011 Workshop – Chicago, IL – and SORTA LIKE A ROCK STAR is honored as an Amelia Elizabeth Walden finalist
October, 2011
THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK begins filming
Q Skypes with students participating in Teen Read Week at the Puyallup Public Library, Puyallup, WA
September, 2011
The Silver Linings Playbook movie casting call goes out
Sorta Like a Rock Star is nominated for the 2013 Louisiana Teen Readers Choice list
The New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Trade Show – Atlantic City, NJ – Q speaks on a panel with A.S. King and Melissa Walker, and moderated by Suzanna Hermans of Oblong Books (Rhinebeck, NY)
Q’s story makes Worcester Mag
July, 2011
Q visits Oklahoma City as The Red Earth Low-Residency MFA Program‘s visiting writing
SORTA LIKE A ROCK STAR is named a finalist for the ALAN Amelia Elizabeth Walden AWARD. Congrats to Francisco X. Stork for taking top honor. If you haven’t read THE LAST SUMMER OF THE DEATH WARRIORS you really should, because it’s a fantastic book. Congrats also to the other finalists: Jordan Sonnenblick, Matt de la Peña, and Kristen Chandler.
June, 2011
SORTA LIKE A ROCK STAR wins the Michigan Library Association’s Thumbs Up! Award. Thank you, Michigan!
Mitali Perkins and Q speak with Sara Zarr‘s Glen Workshop students at Mount Holyoke College
Q interviewed by Desirous of Everything
May, 2011
‘Living On Words’ – Q & Al make the Worcester Telegram & Gazette
The latest TSLP movie gossip here!
SORTA LIKE A ROCK STAR is released in paperback with a new cover
April, 2011
Q is interviewed by Jennifer Buehler, Ph.D. on readwritethink.org’s Text Messages
SORTA LIKE A ROCK STAR makes Bank Street’s list: The Best Children’s Books of the Year, 2011 edition. (Fourteen & Up, Today)
March, 2011
Q moves to Massachusetts
February, 2011
Q and the winners read at the City Paper Fiction Contest celebration
Q visits with Moorestown Friends‘ (High School) creative writing class.
January, 2011
Marco Polo Publishers in Taipei buy Complex Chinese rights to THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK. Pat Peoples is going to Taiwan and Hong Kong.
SORTA LIKE A ROCK STAR makes YALSA/ALA’s 2011 Best Fiction for Young Adults list!
Q has a bromance, and it shows up in the Courier Post
Q returns to his elementary and junior high school to speak with the current students. Oaklyn represent!
Q and his wife, Alicia Bessette, make SJ Magazine’s People To Watch 2011 and judge the Philadelphia City Paper’s Fiction Writing Contest
Claire-ification interviews Q, who sometimes feels pixilated
December, 2010
SORTA LIKE A ROCK STAR is spotted on a GLEE reading poster!
Q discusses compassion, SORTA LIKE A ROCK STAR, and writing with readergirlz
Q & Al sign at Cheese Etc., in Collingswood, NJ
Q signs at the Cherry Hill, NJ Barnes & Noble
SORTA LIKE A ROCK STAR paperback mention in PW’s ‘Children’s Booksellers Share Early Buzz About Spring 2011′. Thanks to Heather Lyon, owner of Lyon Books and Learning Center in Chico, Calif.
November, 2010
SORTA LIKE A ROCK STAR is added to the 2011 Texas Tayshas Reading List.
SORTA LIKE A ROCK STAR makes Indigo Teen Blog’s Top Ten of 2010: Teen Fiction List. Hooray for Canada!
Two Q essays appear on Cynthia Leitich Smith’s blog, Cynsations
Students from the Albert-Schweitzer- Gymnasium in Sömmerda, Germany study SORTA LIKE A ROCK STAR
Q and Al speak at the Moorestown Library as part of The Burlington County Literacy Volunteers’ Speak Out For Literacy Series
Signing with many other authors. Children’s Book World
October, 2010
Q with the students of Little Flower High School
Q is Drexel University’s visiting author
Rick Moody interviews Al and Q about Quest For Kindness on The Rumpus
Q participates in the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Fall 2010 Teen Author Series
Q speaks with the students of Springfield High School
Q and Al speak with the students of New Hope-Solebury High School
Q and Al speak at the Collingswood Book Festival right after Mitch ‘Wild Thing’ Williams
SORTA LIKE A ROCK STAR is nominated for a CYBILS Young Adult Fiction Award (2010)
September, 2010
Q speaks with Collingswood High School‘s AP English class and the Collingswood Town Read Book Club
La Salle University’s The Collegian reviews SORTA LIKE A ROCK STAR
Via phone, Q speaks to Jennifer Buehler, Ph.D.‘s class: The Adolescent in American Literature. Saint Louis University
On NBC Philadelphia, Q and his wife, Alicia Bessette (aka Al), tell the story of how they became published fiction writers
School Library Journal gives the SORTA LIKE A ROCK STAR audio book a **STARRED** review
Q and his wife, novelist Alicia Bessette, speak and read at La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA
August, 2010
Alicia’s (Q’s wife) novel, SIMPLY FROM SCRATCH, is published!
Q and Al’s road-to-publication/love story in South Jersey’s Courier Post
SORTA LIKE A ROCK STAR is taught in a German high school. English class
July, 2010
Azbooka Publishers (Moscow) buy the Russian translation rights for THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
Q reflects on the writing life in a Quest for Kindness essay. Are you in a maze or labyrinth?
Authors Unleashed interviews Q
June, 2010
Q’s editor at Little, Brown–Alvina Ling–blogs about SORTA LIKE A ROCK STAR over at Blue Rose Girls
Toledoblade.com puts SORTA LIKE A ROCK STAR on its Summer Reading List for Children
Q is featured in The Daily Holden
Q speaks at the Haddonfield Public Library, Haddonfield, NJ; The Gale Free Library, Holden, MA; and the Collingswood Library, Collingswood, NJ
May, 2010
Cleveland’s THE PLAIN DEALER puts THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK on its excellent summer paperbacks list calling TSLP “tender, appealing…funny and satisfying.”
Q speaks with the students of New Hope-Solebury High School
SORTA LIKE A ROCK STAR is recommended highly by readwritethink.org‘s Text Messages
THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK is named Collingswood’s Town Book
Who is Big H? Q guest blogs at Teenreads.com: Matthew Quick on the real ‘star’ of SORTA LIKE A ROCK STAR
QUEST FOR KINDNESS begins with Q’s essay, ‘Kindness, Sixteen Years Later‘
Q and SORTA LIKE A ROCK STAR appear on Largehearted Boy’s Book Notes
SORTA LIKE A ROCK STAR is officially published!
Q guest blogs on The Debutante Ball. He’s written about small kind strangers, shopping, and Al
April, 2010
The sale of BOY21, Q’s second YA book, is officially announced by PW here
TSLP US paperback is officially published
School Library Journal gives SORTA LIKE A ROCK STAR a STARRED review and calls it “Hugely enjoyable.”
Librarian Mary Schwander puts SORTA LIKE A ROCK STAR on the Pennsylvania School Librarians Association’s Top Ten
Q guest blogs over at The Divining Wand. He’s written about “Messed-Up Fairy Tales.”
Wordbird interviews Q – SORTA LIKE A ROCK STAR & the writing life
Ken Wheaton, author of THE FIRST ANNUAL GRAND PRAIRIE RABBIT FESTIVAL, responds to SORTA LIKE A ROCK STAR here
Teens Read Too gives SLARS the Gold Star Award for Excellence
Reading Between The Lines and Notes From The Bedside Table offer extremely thoughtful responses to SLARS
Drexel University picks THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK as the summer read for all incoming freshmen
The Divining Wand interviews Q. Q discusses Geico cavemen and sentimental hogwash
The Fictionistas interview Q and post his high school senior photo! Read here
March, 2010
Little, Brown & Company purchases Q’s next YA book, BOY21. Look for it in 18 or so months. Boy21 is about love, poverty, basketball, mental health, forgiveness, and outer space—but mostly it’s about growing up. More details to come…
Untitled Books (in the UK) publishes Q’s ‘Character Study,’ Glen Williams of Robinsville, PA, USA, Night Janitor
TSLP gets the window treatment in London. Very cool article here
Picador launches awesome new TSLP website in the UK: video by Chris Barrett, new audio clips and photos by Dave Tavani, and Pat’s Magic 8 Ball Game. Come play! Hit this link here!
February, 2010
Q discusses book covers on Barnes & Noble’s website
The UK’s TV Book Club interviews Q – My Life In Books: Matthew Quick
Q’s wife, novelist Alicia Bessette, launches her web site www.aliciabessette.com
January, 2010
National Book Award finalist Sara Zarr, Asian Pacific American Award for Youth Literature winner Justina Chen, and Dana Reinhardt endorse SORTA LIKE A ROCK STAR. Their blurbs
THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK is selected by Amanda Ross for The TV Book Club (UK), which the Telegraph calls “Britain’s most powerful book club.”
Dave Tavani blogs about photographing Amber Appleton, the star of SORTA LIKE A ROCK STAR. Great photos here
Helen Stubbs from OffTheShelf English bookshop in Geneva discusses TSLP on World Radio Switzerland. Please hit this link and listen to the clip on the website.
THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK book cover makes top 50 of 2008
Reading Group Discussion Questions for THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
The new SORTA LIKE A ROCK STAR cover
December, 2009
Matthew speaks at the The Gale Free Library – Holden, MA
November, 2009
Publishers Weekly. Librarian Preview The tone of SORTA LIKE A ROCK STAR is compared to Sherman Alexie’s THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN
THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK is a Book Circle selection for the town of Holden, MA
SORTA LIKE A ROCK STAR audio rights sell at auction to Listening Library
Tim Rayworth finishes Matthew’s new website
Matthew speaks with students at Moorestown Friends High School
October, 2009
Matthew signs books at the Susquehanna Bank opening – Center City Philadelphia.
Matthew visits with The Carriagebrooke Farm Book Club
Matthew is interviewed by Jill Dearman here: Barnes & Noble’s Unabashedly Bookish
In her weekly Wednesday blog, Matthew Quick ‘s wife (Alicia Bessette) tells the wacky, epic love story behind how Q and Al ‘became writers’ and landed agents
August, 2009
Stan Hochman writes about Matthew in Philadelphia’s Daily News. Aug 25, pg 53
Tianjin Huawentianxia purchases the Chinese language rights for THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
June, 2009
NPR posts Nancy Pearl’s summer picks. TSLP makes the list
Nancy Pearl discusses TSLP on Library Beat’s Podcast. Minutes 9:17-11:11
Helen’s Reads declares TSLP a ‘fun airplane read.’
Tuesday, June 2, Matthew will speak with the students of New Hope-Solebury High School
Friday, June 5, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm, Matthew will be selling and signing books at The Grey Lodge Pub (Northeast Philadelphia). It’s also Manayunk Keller Beer Night
Saturday, June 13, 5:00 pm – 10:00 pm, Matthew will be signing books at the Cherry Hill Barnes and Noble
May, 2009
TSLP is published in Italian
Sunday, May 24, 10:00 am, Matthew will appear on The Drexel InterView. WYBE/MiNDTV programming can be viewed on channel 35 and cable channels 34 and 57 in the Greater Philadelphia area
Saturday, May 9, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm, Matthew will be selling and signing books at Grooveground (Collingswood, NJ)
Wednesday, May 20, 6:00 pm, Matthew will speak about TSLP and his life. Steininger Behavioral Care Services presents A Night Of Silver Linings
April, 2009
April 2, Peter Anthony Holder interviews Matthew on Canadian radio. Click here to listen to the interview
Woman’s Weekly New Zealand reviews TSLP
Matthew appears in New Jersey Monthly
April 30, Braddock’s Tavern, Medford, NJ – Dinner With An Author to benefit the Literary Volunteers of Burlington Country, Vince Papale is the guest speaker, Matthew will host a table
March, 2009
Variety and /Film report that David O. Russell will direct the movie adaptation of TSLP
TSLP was short-listed for the PEN/Hemingway Award
Chris Barrett films Matthew reading from TSLP.
TSLP reviewed by The New Zealand Herald
On March 5th Matthew was the Haddonfield Lions Club’s guest speaker
February, 2009
Nancy Pearl included TSLP in Pearl’s Picks, February 2009 (the 9th book down)
Philadelphia, PA – La Salle University – Thursday, February 5, 2009 – Matthew will be doing a reading, Q & A, and book signing
Collingswood, NJ – Collingswood High School – Wednesday, February 18, 2009 – Matthew spoke to CHS students. For more info, click here
Collingswood, NJ – The Collingswood Public Library – Tuesday, February 24, 2009 – 7 pm – Matthew will be doing a reading, Q & A, and book signing
UK – Matthew is NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND’s Author of the Month. To read the interview, click here
January, 2009.
Scotland On Sunday reviews TSLP
THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK is published in the UK
Picador interviews Matthew
Matthew appears in South Jersey Magazine
Plainfield, VT – Goddard College – Wednesday, January 7, 2009 (evening) – Matthew will be doing a reading, Q & A, and book signing
December, 2008
THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK is reviewed by Amy Benfer for The Barnes & Noble Review
Marilyn Dahl of Shelf Awareness tags THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK apick of the year
THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK is published in Spain under this title UN FINAL FELIZ
THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK is reviewed by Head Butler
November, 2008
Nov. 24, the Philadelphia Inquirer writes about Matthew Quick
Philadelphia – Saturday, November 1, 2008 @ 6:30 p.m. – 15th annual Borrowers Ball – Free Library of Philadelphia Parkway Central Library 19th and Parkway
October, 2008
Oct., THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK reviewed by NPR
Collingswood, NJ – Saturday, October 4, 2008 Matthew will be speaking and signing @ 10 a.m. – Collingswood Book Festival
New York – Wednesday, October 1, 2008 @ 7 p.m. – Reading with Daphne Beal, author of In the Land of No Right Angles, and Matthew Quick, author of THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK – The Mercantile Library Center for Fiction 17 E 47th St, NYC
September, 2008
In the Morning with Bonnie Grice – Long Island’s NPR station, WLIU 88.3 FM – Tuesday, September 30, 2008 @ 9:45 a.m. – Radio Interview
New York – Sunday, September 28, 2008 @ 11:30 a.m. – Waldorf Astoria Bestseller Brunch: Authors will read from their latest book and/or discuss their work and themselves, then take questions from the audience. The reading/discussion and Q&A will be followed by a book signing. Waldorf Astoria brunch will be served
TV – NBC Philadelphia – Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2008 11:00 a.m. – Matthew will be a guest on the 10! show
Conversation and signing with Eagles WR HANK BASKETT. Philadelphia – Wednesday, September 24, 2008 @ 6:30 p.m. – Friends Select School 17th & The Parkway Philadelphia, PA
Sept. 22, THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK reviewed by Phillyist
Sept. 18, TSLP appears in THE NEW YORK TIMES’ New Books section
Philadelphia – Wednesday, September 17, 2008 @ 5 p.m. – AIA Philadelphia AIA Bookstore and Design Center 1218 Arch Street Philadelphia, PA
Sept. 14, BILL LYON reviews TSLP in THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
TV – Fox Philadelphia – Tuesday, September 9, 2008 7:50 a.m. – Matthew will be interviewed live on the Fox morning show
Sept. 9, to read Matthew’s Book Notes on TSLP, please hit this link: LARGEHEARTED BOY
Sept. 5, TSLP was reviewed by STEPHEN BARBARA, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
“…plucky debut novel…Quick fills the pages with so much absurd wit and true feeling that it’s impossible not to cheer for his unlikely hero.” Allison Lynn, People Magazine, September 8, 2008
The Philadelphia City Paper has excerpted THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK. To read the excerpt online click A HIVE FULL OF GREEN BEES
Boston – Tuesday, September 2, 2008 @ 6 p.m. – “First Time Out: Debut Novelists Share their Work” With Matthew Quick, Brunonia Barry and Amy McKinnon. – Boston Public Library 700 Boylston Street, Orientation Room Boston, MA
August, 2008.
Writer’s Digest has featured Matthew and THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK in the More Notable Debuts section of the October 2008 issue. To read the feature online click HERE
June, 2008
THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK reviewed by Publishers Weekly
May, 2008
This just in from Publishers Weekly: “Alvina Ling at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers has bought North American rights for SORTA LIKE A ROCK STAR, the debut YA novel by author Matthew Quick, which will pub in fall 2009. In the story, a girl on the fringes of life navigates the pressures of poverty and a neglectful mother while inspiring others to embrace hope. Doug Stewart at Sterling Lord Literistic did the deal.”
February, 2008
David O. Russell to pen THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK screenplay
January, 2008
Goddard College interviews Matthew (click to read)
December, 2007
The Sun has printed Matthew’s personal essay, “The Whiskey Robe,” in the December issue
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Next Untitled Novel – HarperCollins US & Canada, published in the UK by Picador
