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SELECTED JOURNALISM

LIFE & DEATH IN NARCOTOPIA

LIFE & DEATH IN NARCOTOPIA

LIFE & DEATH IN NARCOTOPIA

OREGON DRUG APOCALYPSE

A blistering dispatch from the Pacific Northwest, scourged as it is by rampant consumption of chemicals too strong for their users, and blighted as it is by all manner of indulgent and enabling bullshit around this disaster. Pour a stiff drink before reading.


Published by SPIN.

AMERICAN HISTORY

LIFE & DEATH IN NARCOTOPIA

LIFE & DEATH IN NARCOTOPIA

A man in a red and white striped t-shirt plays a kazoo attached to an ax.

TWILIGHT OF A MERRY PRANKSTER

George Walker is one of the last of the infamous cross country, LSD distributing, bus travelers of Tom Wolfe’s classic, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. And he remembers everything.


Published by SPIN.

MEMOIR OF RURAL AUSTRALIA

LIFE & DEATH IN NARCOTOPIA

MEMOIR OF RURAL AUSTRALIA

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NIGHTSWIMMING IN DUNGOG

Spread over the best part of a decade, this is Matt Thompson's confronting account of life and death in small town Australia.


Published by the Sydney Review of Books.

TERRORISM RADIO DOCO

TERRORISM RADIO DOCO

MEMOIR OF RURAL AUSTRALIA

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THE LAST CONQUISTADOR

Matt Thompson explores the violent intrigues of Basilan, a rebel and terrorist-plagued island  in the southern Philippines.


Broadcast by ABC Radio National.

ADDICTION INTERVIEW

TERRORISM RADIO DOCO

STRIKING AT THE KING

Dopey podcast hosts Dave Manheim and the late Chris O'Connor

DOPEY: THE TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST PODCAST
The heartbreaking, life-affirming story of the people behind the Dopey Podcast, a show about the dark comedy of drug addiction. 


Published by SPIN.

STRIKING AT THE KING

TERRORISM RADIO DOCO

STRIKING AT THE KING

A man stands staring from a doorway with a submachine gun slung around his neck.

THE CLOSER TO CAESAR, THE GREATER THE FEAR

Americans want a Renaissance for their country. The attempted assassination of Donald Trump suggests that it's already here.


Published by SPIN.

FILIPINO REPORTAGE

FILIPINO REPORTAGE

FILIPINO REPORTAGE

DON'T GO TO JOLO

Matt Thompson goes deep within the Asia Pacific's front-line of the 'War on Terror' and finds that instability and stability can be different words for the same thing.


Published by the Sydney Review of Books.

ARTS — MUSIC

FILIPINO REPORTAGE

FILIPINO REPORTAGE

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ERIC AVERY TELLS HOW IT WAS

Jane's Addiction co-founder and bass maestro Eric Avery on growing up in LA and the rise, rush, ruin, and resurrection of his volatile band. Co-written with Matt.


Published by SPIN.

NATIONAL PSYCHOSIS

FILIPINO REPORTAGE

TRUE CRIME IN PRISON

Rorschach Test Card

WELCOME TO THE PRODROME

It turns out that America is in a prodromal state, a phase of creeping madness usually only diagnosed retrospectively — after the eruption of full-blown psychosis. 


Published by SPIN.

TRUE CRIME IN PRISON

TRUE CRIME IN PRISON

TRUE CRIME IN PRISON

IDIOT BOX

Aussie prison administrators routinely ban true crime books, asserting without  explanation their threat to the ‘security and good order’ of jails. Matt discovered this after writing Mayhem, a biography of a near-lifelong prisoner, Christopher ‘BADNE$$’ Binse, and then trying to get a copy to him. 


Published by the Sydney Review of Books.

ARTS — WRITING

TRUE CRIME IN PRISON

ARTS — WRITING

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WIPE MY MIND WITH YOUR HEAVENLY POWERS OR TAKE ME TO EDGE CITY, YOU FRAUDULENT CORPSE-DANDY

Much of Matt's adult life was spent revering New Journalism and pining for such an era. When Tom Wolfe died, Matt faced reality.


Published by Neighbourhood.

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