# Matthew Clark Davison

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Matthew Clark Davison - Doubting Thomas

Thomas McGurrin is a fourth-grade teacher and openly gay man at a private primary school serving Portland, Oregon's wealthy progressive elite when he is falsely accused of inappropriately touching a male student. The accusation comes just as Thomas is thrust back into the center of his unusual fami…

‘Doubting Thomas’ probes false accusations

What would you do if falsely accused of molesting a child? And you see your career crumble. Matthew Clark Davison’s novel “Doubting Thomas,” about a gay school teacher, challenges assumptions about guilt, innocence and more.

"I Left Home Because of Homophobia," Matthew Clark Davison Finds His Queer Literary Voice in San Francisco and the Process of Writing "Doubting Thomas"

Join The Ivory Tower Boiler Room Cafe, $5 a month, to listen to our bonus episode with Matthew here: patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom  Content Warning: Sexual Abuse Andrew is joined with queer male author, Matthew Clark Davison who recently wrote "Doubting Thomas," a novel about an openly gay mal…

S8Ep08: Matthew Clark Davison + The World to Come review

Matthew Clark Davison, author of Doubting Thomas and the upcoming The Lab: Experiments in Working Across Genre, joins us to discuss the way his novel explores the sometimes daily fears LGBTQA+ folks STILL feel while at work and among well-meaning family. Then Liz Faraim joins us to review The World…

‘Doubting Thomas’ probes false accusations

What would you do if falsely accused of molesting a child? And you see your career crumble. Matthew Clark Davison’s novel “Doubting Thomas,” about a gay school teacher, challenges assumptions about guilt, innocence and more.

Writing Mirrors Life with Matthew Clark Davison

Matthew Clark Davison is the author of Doubting Thomas (Amble Press in 2021) and creator of The Lab :: Writing Classes with MCD. His textbook The Lab, Experiments in Writing Across Genre, co-authored by bestselling writer Alice LaPlante, will be published by W.W. Norton in 2022. His prose has been …

Getting Parole While Undocumented / New Arrivals

The legislature is considering a bill that would keep California state prisons from handing people who get parole and are undocumented over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. We’ll find out why that’s important, how it’s controversial, and whose lives would be changed as a result. And, we'll h…

Exploring Hybrid Literary Forms

A new Craftwork conversation with Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante, co-authors of The Lab: Experiments in Writing Across Genre, available from W. W. Norton & Col. Davison is the author of Doubting Thomas and founder of The Lab, a generative writing workshop. He is emeritus faculty in Creat…

S6 Ep. 6: Nancy Pelosi’s Majority: Matthew Clark Davison’s San Francisco Take on a National Leader

In the wake of the brutal attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul, and anticipating the midterms, writer and longtime Bay Area resident Matthew Clark Davison joins Fiction/Non/Fiction hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss Nancy Pelosi’s political trailblazing and what it’s like to …