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Matthew Karpin Matthew Karpin i(A10396 works by)
Born: Established: 1959 Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Male
Heritage: Jewish
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1 y separately published work icon The Crisis The Crisis : How Autism Nearly Destroyed My Family and What We Did Matthew Karpin , Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2018 13456816 2018 single work autobiography

'When a child with autism is driven to the edge, it is by the accumulation of explosive stimuli to which he cannot otherwise respond. The edge to which he takes you, his family, is, at the time, where he lives. You are being taken, in a crisis, to his world - and it is extremely troubling. To cope - at the very least, cope, because this is not sustainable but just an emergency response - you have to somehow ride it out. Getting everyone out of that place, back into the world of the rational, is a distant, secondary goal.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 4 y separately published work icon The Right Matthew Karpin , Glebe : Puncher and Wattmann , 2008 Z1579616 2008 single work novel

'The Right charts the rise of Michael Kutin through the ALP ranks, from pre-selection to cabinet, while also telling the story of those who are closest to him and those unfortunate enough to stand in his way. This is a frighteningly realistic portrait of political power with a cast of figures all too familiar to the reader.'

Source: Booktopia website, http://www.booktopia.com.au/
Sighted: 20/04/2009
1 Friday Night Chinatown Peking Duck Matthew Karpin , 2006 single work short story
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , Second Quarter vol. 25 no. 2 2006; (p. 64-69)
1 2 y separately published work icon The Thesis Matthew Karpin , Armidale : Kardoorair Press , 2004 Z1127483 2004 single work novel humour
1 Hearts (from 'Argument from silence', a novel-in-progress) Matthew Karpin , 2000 extract
— Appears in: Meanjin : Fine Writing & Provocative Ideas , vol. 59 no. 4 2000; (p. 94-105)
1 What are the Roots that Clutch (from Argument from Silence, a work-in-progress) Matthew Karpin , 2000 extract novel
— Appears in: Heat , no. 14 2000; (p. 79-87) Penguin Australian Summer Stories 3 2000; (p. 185-196)
1 Argument from Silence Matthew Karpin , 2000 single work short story
— Appears in: Siglo , Summer no. 12 2000; (p. 63-64)
1 The Monitor (from The Monitor, a Novel-in-Progress) Matthew Karpin , 1999 extract
— Appears in: Enough Already : An Anthology of Australian-Jewish Writing 1999; (p. 257-274)
1 In Ectopia Matthew Karpin , 1999 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Siglo , Autumn-Winter no. 11 1999; (p. 58-59)
1 An Extract from the Novel The Thesis: 'The Dysfunctional (Family) as Signifier' Matthew Karpin , 1998 extract novel (The Thesis)
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , April vol. 2 no. 1 1998; The author in the story is working on the difficult fourth chapter of her thesis. She is interrupted over a period of time by three of her interviewees wishing to change or claim back their information. These interruptions cause the author to grapple with the realisation that it was not what she and her interviewees had said that was important to the text but what they had not said. This realisation launches her into erasing much of her thesis.
1 The Thesis Matthew Karpin , 1998 single work short story
— Appears in: Imago : New Writing , Autumn vol. 10 no. 1 1998; (p. 114-120)
1 The Supervisor Matthew Karpin , 1995 single work short story
— Appears in: Imago : New Writing , July vol. 7 no. 2 1995; (p. 32-35)
1 2 y separately published work icon In Our Own Day Matthew Karpin , Sydney : New Endeavour Press , 1995 Z374343 1995 single work novel
1 A Bullshit Poem (in Imitation) i "My friend, the student politician", Matthew Karpin , 1986 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , no. 103 1986; (p. 43)
1 In Another Country i "Theirs was to be a place of refuge", Matthew Karpin , 1986 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , no. 103 1986; (p. 42)
1 Untitled i "Passing you again the other day,", Matthew Karpin , 1986 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , no. 103 1986; (p. 41)
1 Fathers i "We are watching all the men, so that the tea", Matthew Karpin , 1986 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , no. 103 1986; (p. 41)
1 Fraser's Place Matthew Karpin , 1986 single work short story
— Appears in: Going Down Swinging , Autumn no. 7 1986; (p. 37-42)
1 The Fly and the Insecticide : After Goethe i "He is sucking a point of water", Matthew Karpin , 1984 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Kommon Sense Poetry Booque 1984; (p. 54)
1 Ulysses and the Sirens i "Circe told me tales of strange misfortune:", Matthew Karpin , 1984 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Kommon Sense Poetry Booque 1984; (p. 53)
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