Joseph Matheny
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2,628 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 1 Jun
Joseph Matheny’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But it was that accident of buying that book for a nickel or whatever it was and reading it and falling in love with, like, this is a whole new thing I didn't know about this.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Wow.
Yeah, those are my influences.
Okay.
Bukowski.
Yeah.
Like, you know, Hemingway.
It's like make the sentences short and sweet.
Bam.
Like, you know, so I'll go back and rewrite and rewrite and rewrite, which, you know, that's Ginsburg.
Kerouac was like, write it once.
You know, oh, no, don't touch it.
Yeah, yeah.
Write it once and get away.
So now I was floating in this world of all this weird counterculture stuff, which is available readily when I was a kid.
And all this occult stuff and literature.
And of course, being in Chicago, all that stuff was available to me.
They started hanging out in bookstores.
where most of the people hanging out were much older than me.
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