Who Is Rich?: A Novel

It’s a place where, every year, students—nature poets and driftwood sculptors, widowed seniors, teenagers away from home for the first time—show up to study with an esteemed faculty made up of prizewinning playwrights, actors, and historians; drunkards and perverts; members of the cultural elite; unknown nobodies, midlist somebodies, and legitimate stars—a place where drum circles happen on the beach at midnight, clothing optional.   A warped and exhilarating tale of love and lust, Who Is Rich? goes far beyond to address deeper questions: of family, monogamy, the intoxicating beauty of children, and the challenging interdependence of two soulful, sensitive creatures in a confusing domestic alliance.Praise for Who Is Rich?“Who Is Rich? is a gem within the canon of infidelity literature with a wonderful narrator, lacerating and gentle. It’s a dazzling meditation told by an adulterous middle-aged schlub,

Henry Prize Stories, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, and The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction. . His writing has been featured in publications including The New Yorker, Harper’s, GQ, The New York Times Magazine, The O. Matthew Klam is the author of the acclaim

Making his protagonist white and middle-aged was a brave choice, because Rich (the protagonist) does some complaining in this novel (and some cheating), and a lot of readers don’t like to see white, middle-aged men complain or cheat. But what happens when the passion begins to ebb? What are you left with then? Matthew Klam strikes me as a writer’s writer, and I think that other authors will love this work; he’s just so honest and talented. If that’s you, you can stop reading now. --Chris Schluep, The Book Review. An Best Book of July 2017: Matthew Klam is an immensely talented author: he’s funny, deep, easily readable, and sometimes honest to the point of being startling. Perhaps that’s you. He’s made choices based on passion—passion for his art, for love—which is how it should be. He’s educated, he’s talented, and he’s frustr

Avid_Reader said Worthwhile Update of an Old Theme.. As many reviewers have already noted the theme of white male middle aged angst is well worn, yet deftly executed by wordsmith Klam. I agree. Besides the humorous ruminations on mid-life crisis, Klam provided some excellent venting about class resentment in the. M. JEFFREY MCMAHON said Class Conflict Stirs a Pity Party in the Heart of a Graphic Novelist. When I read the premise of Matthew Klam’s latest novel, a tale about an affair between one privileged, educated artist with a super privileged socialite who meet while the artist is teaching illustrating at a once opulent boutique college in the upper Ea. A terrible reading experience Marc Williams Sloppy, convoluted writing. Unsympathetic characters. A wildly meandering storyline. All of which could be forgiven if it was even mildly amusing. It's not.