About matthew Friedman
I’m Matthew Friedman
I am a Chicago-based historian, writer, filmmaker, and photographer. I am the editor of The Typescript, and I have worked as a journalist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Montreal Gazette, The National Post, Wired News, InternetWeek, and a wide range of publications. I am the award-winning author of three books, and a professional historian whose research focuses on 20th century American sound cultures and avant-garde music. I have taught US and digital history at Rutgers University, Newark, Dominican University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago.
‘I grew up on a steady diet of Ernest Hemingway stories and movies featuring hard-boiled Hollywood hacks. When I think of a writer, I think of William Holden as Joe Gillis on late-night telecasts of Sunset Boulevard, his hands flying over the keyboard of a Remington portable, pulling finished pages with a tearing flourish… and the sound, the chorus of little hammers striking paper, violently giving flesh to the word.’
– Matthew Friedman, Fuzzy Logic: Dispatches from the Information Revolution