Anything Is Good & I Hate It Here, Please Vote For Me Featuring Fred Waitzkin and Matthew Ferrence

MATTHEW FERRENCE lives and writes at the confluence of Appalachia and the Rust Belt. He teaches creative writing at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. He's the author of I Hate It Here, Please Vote for Me: Essays on Rural Political Decay (West Virginia University Press, August 2024).

FRED WAITZKIN was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1943. He went to Kenyon College and did graduate study at New York University. He lives in Manhattan. His work has appeared in Esquire, New York magazine, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, Outside, Sports Illustrated, Forbes, the Huffington Post, and the Daily Beast, among other publications. His memoir, Searching for Bobby Fischer, was made into a major motion picture released in 1993. His new book, a novel, is Anything Is Good.