The MTC Read
Author Talks & Interviews
- Author Stories Podcast: Matt RuffMar 30, 2020 interview guest is Matt Ruff, author of Lovecraft Country, and the new novel 88 Names.
- A Good Kind of Difficult: An Interview with Matt RuffFrom Rise Up Daily
- Interview with Matt Ruff, author of LOVECRAFT COUNTRYFrom Lovecraft eZine
About Matt Ruff
Matt Ruff is a fiction writer from New York City and a graduate of Cornell University's English program. He has written seven novels, of which a few have won awards. His sixth novel, Lovecraft Country has been adapted as an HBO series by Misha Green, Jordan Peele, and J.J. Abrams.
In Lovecraft Country, the critically celebrated novelist renders the horrors of daily life in 1954 Jim Crow America real along with its lasting effects in his imaginative meld of historical fiction, pulp noir, and Lovecraftian horror. Matt Ruff creates a "bridge between paranormal horror and the horrors of racism" (“Lovecraft Country”).
Articles About Lovecraft Country
- 'Lovecraft Country': Facing Monsters —And A Monstrous HistoryBy Glen Weldon for NPR Pop Culture Happy Hour
- How Lovecraft Country Reappropriates H.P. Lovecraft’s Notoriously Racist CreationsBy Laura Miller for Slate
- Review: ‘Lovecraft Country’From Publishers Weekly
- Review: 'Lovecraft Country'The Shortlist: Satire from NY Times
Lovecraft Country, HBO Series Official Trailer
Based on Matt Ruff's novel of the same name, Lovecraft Country follows Atticus Freeman (Jonathan Majors) as he meets up with his friend Letitia (Jurnee Smollett) and his uncle George (Courtney B. Vance) to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America in search of his missing father (Michael Kenneth Williams).
Works Cited
“Lovecraft Country author: ‘I needed a bridge between paranormal horror and the horrors of racism’.” The Independent, 17 Aug. 2020, www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/lovecraft-country-white-supremacy-mark-ruff-interview-racism-a9670666.html.