M.T. Anderson

Nov 28, 2024 | livingchurch.org | Christine Havens |M.T. Anderson

NickedBy M.T. AndersonPantheon, 240 pages, $28Nicked is a great-hearted, mischievous novel. The story, the characters, the theological exploration nicked my heart straightaway. M.T. Anderson deftly weaves hagiography and a contemporary account of a 1087 theft of St. Nicholas’s body from its original resting place in the Lydian village of Myra to produce a novel that captures the essence of the medieval nonfiction he finds so fascinating.

Nov 9, 2024 | livingchurch.org | Christine Havens |M.T. Anderson

NickedBy M.T. AndersonPantheon, 240 pages, $28Nicked is a great-hearted, mischievous novel. The story, the characters, the theological exploration nicked my heart straightaway. M.T. Anderson deftly weaves the historical contemporary accounts of a theft in 1087 of St. Nicholas from its original resting place in the Lydian village of Myra, where he resided as bishop, with the saint’s hagiography to produce a novel that captures the essence of the medieval nonfiction he finds so fascinating.

Aug 9, 2024 | edutopia.org | Daniel Leonard |Cherie Dimaline |M.T. Anderson |Neal Shusterman

It’s no secret that today’s students are coming of age in a complex and rapidly evolving world. Science fiction, educators say, may be able to help them make sense of it.

Aug 3, 2024 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | M.T. Anderson

The Deading by Nicholas Belardes (Erewhon Press). Reviewed by Keith Donohue. “There’s something deadly out there, folks, a-swim in the wine-dark sea. In Nicholas Belardes debut novel, other mysteries lurk, but the menace is no great white shark. No, the monsters in The Deading are snails. Killer snails. Millions of those delicious gastropods rising up like a plague to take their revenge on the small town of Baywood, California, in reckoning for humanity’s abuse of the environment.

Jul 31, 2024 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | M.T. Anderson

Despite its overtly spiritual subject matter, M.T. Anderson’s Nicked isn’t a story about religion. Rather, it’s a fluffy, irreverent, and often hilarious mashup of a heist, a quest, and…wait for it…a rom-com. The novel’s philosophy might best be described as “seize the day” — and if you can corrupt an innocent young monk while you’re at it, all the better. The year is 1087. Nicephorus, a Catholic monk with an “irritatingly pure and generous heart” and an inability to lie, has a problem.