Böcker av Matthew Roberson

Vignettes of a middle-class American family told through lists, each reflecting their obsessions, their complaints, their desires, and their humanity.

A collection of stories about a time when individuals are reduced to letters on a medical chart and 'it is easier to get a refill on a prescription than approval for therapy'. It catalogs the hopes, dreams, and failures of people identified only through form-like abbreviations (C - for co-dependent, I - for Insured).

This novel about the complicated experience of pursuing a PhD details the curious world of a group stuck between childhood and adulthood, idealism and surrealism, representation and reality. It focuses on three main characters, each writing dissertations on postmodern novelist Ronald Sukenick.