About

Matthew Cole Levine is a novelist, film critic, screenwriter, and editor based in St. Paul, MN. This website is a repository for writing that includes fiction excerpts, film reviews, in-depth essays, and more, as well as publishing announcements and other updates. No writing is off-limits; non-fiction and poetry may be spotted occasionally.

​The Louis Aragon epigraph on the homepage bears repeating:

Yes, the kingdom of apparitions is of this world, today it is this world, and the serious or mocking men who handle the creaking gates open them to new phantoms, who carry strange rays of light in their footsteps, in the folds of their mantles. Watch out for the period that's coming! This world is already cracking, it bears within it some unknown principle of negation, it is crumbling. Follow the rising smoke, the specters' lashings in the midst of the bourgeois universe. A bolt of lightning is lurking beneath the bowler hats. Truly, there is diabolism in the air.

Born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Levine spent time in Milwaukee, Madison, and finally the Twin Cities, making him well-versed in a particular brand of midwestern horror. He studied film and literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Emory University. He has written for publications such as Found Footage Magazine, The Missing Slate,  ​Joyless Creatures, the British Film Institute, Walker Art Center, and more, and has presented on film theory and history at Indiana University, Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania and elsewhere.