Matthew McIntosh has been published in Ploughshares, Puerto del Sol and Playboy. He is twenty-six years old.Here are the first (of many) reviews for Well:'McIntosh writes from the punched gut, the broken heart, the striving, splintered soul. [Well] reveals much contemporary American writing for what it truly, sadly, is: whimsical, icy, of emaciated compassion and, ultimately, utterly pointless. Only a writer of rare and precious talent can perform that ugly but necessary task and that is what, God help him, Matthew McIntosh is.' Niall Griffiths'Matthew McIntosh's panoramic, vastly ambitious d but novel is a wild composite of Robert Altman's Short Cuts, Denis Johnson's Jesus's Son, John Updike's Couples and Rick Moody's Garden State. Giving his novel the multi-story quick-cut feel of a TV show like 'ER', McIntosh offers a beautifully elliptical, fragmented portrait of Federal Way, a suburb of Se
