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Vices & Virtues
Animal Stories For Adults
Vices & Virtues is a collection of ten whimsical stories that highlight the good and evil in each of us through the lives of animals: a snobbish Rat living in New York City, a talented Raccoon with a drug problem, a Walrus in Los Angeles chasing the American dream, a Rabbit who lives in the shadow of his father, and many more.
Vices & Virtues is now available on all podcasting platforms and YouTube. Simply search “Matt Eddy Stories” to start listening to the collection and don’t forget to rate, review, subscribe and follow for notifications on new stories.
Matt Eddy
Matt Eddy’s austere satire has made him one of America’s best-emerging storytellers.
He is a regular at storytelling events across New York and is best known for his collection of short stories, Vices & Virtues. The inspiration for Vices & Virtues draws on classical literature where the hero turns out to be evil and stories that ask the reader to judge themselves as much as the characters.
At live events, Matt Eddy is also known to read from his collection of personal essays, The Things I Owned Ended Up Owning Me. These funny, poignant, and heartbreaking stories include his life as a criminal defense lawyer, a cat with a sneezing problem, relying on friends to move house eight times, what to do when you think your best friend has rabies in Thailand, and how best to dispose of a ham sandwich.
Matt Eddy grew up in Australia and currently resides in New York with his wife, daughter, dog, and a menagerie of taxidermied animals, including a Raccoon with a top hat that was rescued from an Irish Bar in New Jersey.
Vices & Virtues will be released as a podcast on November 2, 2024.
Upcoming Events
Lit Lit – Dec 6
Lit Lit is a monthly literary open mic for local authors to read their work at the historic Howland Cultural Center in Beacon, NY.
Lit Lit – Jan 3
Lit Lit is a monthly literary open mic for local authors to read their work at the historic Howland Cultural Center in Beacon, NY.
Lit Lit – Feb 7
Lit Lit is a monthly literary open mic for local authors to read their work at the historic Howland Cultural Center in Beacon, NY.
Lit Lit – March 7
Lit Lit is a monthly literary open mic for local authors to read their work at the historic Howland Cultural Center in Beacon, NY.
“Matt Eddy’s stories have just the right mix of salt and vinegar characters to keep the sweet moments from coming close to saccharine. His storytelling is a bit Mark Twain with his contemporary social commentary imbedded in irresistible laugh-out-loud humor. His keen eye for our many modern foibles brings verisimilitude to his parallel animal universe. To be immersed in his story universe, is to be amongst all the people you know but with whiskers, tails, and webbed feet. This series of off beat morality tales reads as if each of the characters were already part of our collective unconscious and we are actually just getting reacquainted with old friends. Each vignette is an intimate telling of what life feels like, told through the voice of an archetypal animal who encapsulates perfectly that experience.”
Sarah hermes griesbach
the Local Girl Journalist
“Matt Eddy is one of the best storytellers I know. His observations are always insightful and vivid, completely recognizable, and yet thoroughly surprising. He has a talent for turning a phrase in such a way that you know exactly what he’s talking about but you’ve never heard it put quite so perfectly before. He provides poignancy and hilarity in equal measure in the same story, often in the same sentence, with acerbic wit and a compassionate recognition of the fundamentally ridiculous nature of the human condition. I can’t wait to hear what story he’s going to tell us next.”