Publications
Some of my more notable essays:
- A Student of Intimacy, Step by Step, The New York Times, 2009
- The Future Mayor of Hoboken, The Columbia Spectator, 2009
- Wanting to Kill, The New York Times, 2012
- A Taste of Larceny in My Blood, The Rumpus 2013
- The NRA Is Wrong: The Myth of Illegal Guns, The Daily Beast, 2013
- Matthew Parker: Amnesty by Any Other Name, Guernica, 2013
- Lunch with an ex-con: How about it, Loretta Lynch? The Baltimore Sun, 2015
- If an ex-con can forgive Hillary Clinton, why can’t other liberals? Blavity, 2016
- Sonic Footprints Down Highway 61, Five Points - A Journal of Literature and Art
- I'm existing, not living:" Stories of the loneliness of quarantine, The Washington Post, 2020
- Why Social Distancing Is Nothing New To Dedicated Long-Distance Lovers, Blavity, 2020
- I Was Once Incarcerated and Now Can’t Vote. But I Still Appreciate the US Constitution, Courier Newsroom, 2020
- I Was Once Incarcerated for a Non-Violent Drug Offense: Let’s Do Lunch, Kamala Harris, Courier Newsroom, 2020
- The White Supremacy I Saw in Prison Is Also in the White House, Courier Newsroom, 2020
Columns
Below are a few tasty morsels from my Column on Vox Populi. Special thanks to my editor, Michael Simms, for putting up with my uneven ranting
- How Courage, Kindness, and Creative Iconoclasm Can Counter the Tramp of Fascist Feet, 2025
- Cancer Dancers, 2025
- The Continuing Fallacy of Our Word Salad Sandwiches, 2025
- Pardon Me, 2025
- One of Those Years, 2023
- The Shine on Her Shoes, 2023
- The Era of Idiocy, 2023
VoFoExCo (Vote for an Ex-con): Politics for the Rational Mind
Select articles from my Susbstack that no respectable publication would touch. Their loss. Note that there are no dates because most were written years ago and I kept (and indeed keep) shitty notes:
Note: The above is a copy of a letter I sent in February of 2021, via snail mail, to all 50 Republican Senators (along with a few choice Democrats, both to have a record of it as well as for their own entertainment purposes) tasked with either upholding or dismissing the House's impeachment of Donald Trump. At the time, nobody would publish it, all of them just a few ticks up the chickenshit meter than the insipid Senators themselves.
- The Unprecedented Protection Afforded Aristocrats: How Modern-Day Monarchists Allow Bad Men to Thrive
- Nobody In Particular,
- The Bitch Factor Inherent in the Mendacious Madness of Trump
- The Expansion of Irrationality in the MAGA Movement: The Age of Reason is dead and Republicans Killed it.
- We Demand that S** Fr****so be Banned
- Grift Graft, I Need a Bath: How only the Sleaziness of Republicans' Trickles down
Press
Some interviews and other press, including an appearance on The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell, which took place on my last night in New York City. I went out in style; a comp SUV took me from my Bronx apartment to 30 Rock and back.
- Oscar Nominated actor Brian Tyree Henry Reads my Modern Love Column Live on Valentine's day, 2017, at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston
- The Myth of Illegal Guns | The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell - May 31, 2013
- Conversations with Literary Ex-Cons: Matthew Parker: The Rumpus - February 13, 2013
- Can Personal Experience Change Your Views on the Death Penalty? The TakeAway, August 9, 2012
- An Ex-Con Walks into an Ivy League Classroom, The Millions Interview with Matthew Parker - August 7, 2012
- Graphic Tales of Larceny, The Good Men Project
- Memoir graphically details a life of drug abuse. ASU News – August 13, 2012
- Frotcast 112: Prison Stories with Matthew Parker(link is external) FilmDrunk, August 9, 2012
- Frotcast 79: Prison Memoirs, Heroin & Hanukkah Songs FilmDrunk, December 21, 2011
- The Limits of Literacy, BWOG – August 7, 2012