Matt Geiger’s Astonishing Tales made the Conversations blog Top 50 Non-Fiction Books of 2018.

If you are looking for a new author – funny, touching with a midwestern bent (say David Sedaris if he’d grown up in Wisconsin and had a beard and wielded an axe) look no further than Matt Geiger. His new book “Astonishing Tales”. 

Matt Geiger, our second guest, says “Anytime I’m able to talk about Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov in a single interview, I’m happy!” So Vicki makes him happy and asks why.

In his new collection of stories and essays, acclaimed author and humorist Matt Geiger seeks to de-familiarize us from the world, from the smallest detail to the most cosmic mythology, in order to see it all as if for the first time.

Humorist, journalist and chronicler of the weird Matt Geiger is part David Sedaris, part Dave Berry and part John Waters.

Host Cyrus Webb welcomes author Matt Geiger to #ConversationsLIVE to discuss his new book ASTONISHING TALES.

On this edition of Conversations, Matt Geiger joins us to talk about the collection of humorous yet emotionally powerful stories and essays you’ll find in his latest book, Astonishing Tales! (Your Astonishment May Vary).Geiger is an award winning essayist and journalist, who is frequently heard on public radio.

Being a comedian or a humor writer is a difficult job. We all have different concepts of what is funny. Isn’t responding to a comic writer or actor based on at least a similar sense of humor, and perhaps on a similar view of the absurdities of life?

The Billboard had promised gasoline, sandwiches, and the opportunity to see a two-headed calf named “Heady”. Standing in The Pit Stop in Mineral Point, I

I judge each child I meet based on her or his merits. I don’t always end up liking them, but at least those who receive my love have done something to deserve it. I’m not the only one who does.

Wisconsin author Matt Geiger’s debut The Geiger Counter: Raised by Wolves & Other Stories was selected as a finalist in the Humor category.

Hear “The Geiger Counter: Raised by Wolves & Other Stories” author Matt Geiger read “Boring Death: A Theory Of Midwestern Cemeteries” on Wisconsin Public Radio.