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Praise for The Silent Chord <\/em>(Out now!): <\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Part satire and part noir, The Silent Chord<\/em> is a mash-up of Hitchcock’s Psycho<\/em> and David Lynch’s Mullholland Drive<\/em>. Kirkpatrick’s razor-sharp humor and brilliantly executed plot is a synesthetic pleasure in the vein of Paul Auster and Tom McCarthy. But more than that, this is a novel of ideas: about the sanctity of memory, the slippery line between possibility and fantasy, and the threat of literal and figurative erasure. A bold and original novel, The Silent Chord<\/em> is a deft reminder of the frailty of human consciousness when faced with grief, the brutality of corporate corruption, and the lengths we go to in order to combat perhaps that most haunting of human emotions: loneliness.” –Lindsey Drager, author of The Avian Hourglass<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMatthew Kirkpatrick\u2019s thrilling The Silent Chord <\/em>reads something like Kafka writing a Charles Yu story: bleakly hilarious, offering an inescapable claustrophobia of office politics and corporate disaffection, all the while remaining highly attuned to the ways we fail to see each other even as we yearn for connection. A dizzyingly disorienting novel I won’t soon forget, from a writer who never fails to surprise and delight.\u201d –Matt Bell, author of Appleseed<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Praise for The Ambrose J and Vivian T Seagrave Museum of 20th Century American Art:<\/em><\/mark> <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis novel is the Pale Fire <\/em>of paintings\u2026\u201d \u2013 Joe Sacksteder in Heavy Feather Review<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA novel of ideas whose appeal goes far beyond its target audience\u2013be it literary readers skeptical of yet another postmodern yarn or art-world enthusiasts jaded about its ivory-tower state of affairs.\u201d \u2013 Kirkus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Praise for The Silent Chord (Out now!): “Part satire and part noir, The Silent Chord is a mash-up of Hitchcock’s Psycho and David Lynch’s Mullholland Drive. Kirkpatrick’s razor-sharp humor and brilliantly executed plot is a synesthetic pleasure in the vein of Paul Auster and Tom McCarthy. But more than that, this is a novel of ideas: about the sanctity of memory, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattkirkpatrick.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattkirkpatrick.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattkirkpatrick.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattkirkpatrick.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattkirkpatrick.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattkirkpatrick.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattkirkpatrick.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattkirkpatrick.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}