~writer from Naperville, Illinois~

email me at matt.bryan.weir at gmail.com

Fiction

“The Driver’s Seat,” Cleveland Review of Books, 2025

“Late at Night,” Harper’s, 2022

Criticism

“Guns and Opioids are the Next Frontier for the American Novel,” Jacobin, 2023

“A Corporate Kidnapping Case Confirms That the Bad Time are Already Here,” Jacobin, 2023

“Mircea Cărtărescu Stares Down the Abyss,” Dissent, 2023

“Sinclair Lewis’s Babbitt Was the First Satire of Suburban America,” Jacobin, 2022

“Being Umbrellas During Storms,” The Review of Uncontemporary Fiction, 2021 (RIP to The Review of UF)

“A Friend to the Dissidents,” Dissent, 2021

“Norwegian Mood,” Dissent, 2019

Miscellaneous

“How Well Do You Know These Writers’ Lives? Quiz,” The Daily at The Paris Review, 2018

“Sunset Haters,” YouTube, 2012