Jackie Sumell’s captivating exhibit of paper cut-out collages depicting aspects of her brother’s life is an exercise in sophisticated sibling-rivalry payback. The way Sumell tells it, her younger ...

Matt Sumell's debut novel, Making Nice, is the kind of book that may have some readers throwing it down after a chapter or two, but it is also the kind of book that has rich rewards for those willing ...

It's Friday afternoon in the back room of the Wharf, a fisherman's watering hole on the south shore of Long Island, N.Y. The bar looks out across the Great South Bay towards Fire Island. It's a ...

Matt Sumell's novel-in-stories Making Nice is one of the funniest (and best) books of the year, featuring the self-destructive but well-meaning Alby--a "loser," according to his sister. Here, Sumell ...

Matt Sumell wrote Making Nice in part as a response to his mother's death from cancer. "I was using the good luck of bad luck," he says. "You use... Through 10 Years Of Mining His Grief, A Novelist ...

Matt Sumell's fiction has appeared in Electric Literature, The Paris Review and McSweeney's, among other outlets. It's Friday afternoon in the back room of the Wharf, a fisherman's watering hole on ...