Matthew Moore is a writer, PhD student, and lifelong Midwesterner. He holds an MFA in creative writing and environment in creative nonfiction from Iowa State University. Matthew’s research focuses on representations of anger and rage in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century American fiction, and how those representations reflect or resist cultural attitudes towards eugenics, animality, and industrialization. Matthew is particularly interested in thermodynamic metaphors of anger, and especially boiling rage, in a time of increasing industrial heat. His essays and public scholarship can be found in Rust Belt Magazine, The Pittsburgh Review of Books, The Mid-Theory Collective, and InVisible Culture. You can find his writing at https://matthewmo.com/
Located on Broadway in St. Louis’s historic Carondelet neighborhood, the venue has become something of a billowing steam vent in the city’s punk, hardcore, and metal scenes. A bastion to the do-it-yourself ethos long embraced by the subcultures of underground music, The Sinkhole boasts a single room, one bar, and a ceiling as low as its overhead.