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With His New Novel, Matthew Amster-Burton Trades Food for Music
Matthew Amster-Burton’s switch from mainstream publishing to Kickstarter got him a best-seller and a movie option
Matthew Amster-Burton’s new novel, Our Secret Better Lives, returns readers to the grunge era, focusing on Northwest kids stuck in Los Angeles while the whole world is going crazy over Pearl Jam. A former Seattle magazine contributor, Amster-Burton is known for his culinary writing and Spilled Milk podcast with Orangette’s Molly Wizenberg. His Pretty Good…