Discipline: Literature

Mark Matousek

Discipline: Literature
Region: East Hampton, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1996
Mark Matousek is an American memoirist, teacher, and journalist. Matousek moved to New York City, working as a stringer covering popular culture for Reuters, then in the letters department of Newsweek Magazine. He was hired by Andy Warhol's Interview in 1982, first as a proofreader then as the magazine's first senior editor. Over the next three years, Matousek conducted hundreds of interviews with prominent figures in film, television, books, fine art, politics, design, and science. Drawn to eastern philosophy, especially Buddhism, Matousek shifted gears from pop culture to psychology, religion, and spiritual seeking, and became a contributing editor to Common Boundary Magazine, where his back page column, “The Naked Eye,” appeared from 1994-1999. Subsequently, he received a National Magazine Award nomination for "America's Darkest Secret" (about the epidemic of incest in the U.S.) And published essays in numerous magazines, including The New Yorker, Details, O: The Oprah Magazine, Tricycle, The Utne Reader, AARP Magazine, Out, Good Housekeeping, Yoga Journal, McCalls, and Harper's Bazaar. His Ethical Wisdom blog appears regularly in The Huffington Post and Psychology Today online. In 2011 Matousek published Ethical Wisdom: What Makes Us Good, a study of human morality. Matousek is currently working on a theatrical piece called Breaking Out the Man Box with playwright James Lecesne.

Studios

Monday Music

Mark Matousek worked in the Monday Music studio.

Given to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by glaciers thousands of years ago. A small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without the dormer. The interior…

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