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Matthew Shepatin

Journalist and Author

Born and raised in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, the road has taken me to London, New York, Los Angeles and other locales that fire up the imagination. I’m the co-author of Marathon Man (St. Martin’s Press, 2013), the new memoir from running legend Bill Rodgers.

I’m also the co-author of New York Jets Hall of Famer Don Maynard’s memoir,You Can’t Catch Sunshine (Triumph Books, 2010) and the writer of Then Madden Said To Summerall: The Best NFL Stories Ever Told (Triumph Books, 2009).

I’ve interviewed countless celebrities, including Adrian Grenier, Jonah Hill, Roger Waters, Guy Pearce, Rose McGowan, Jonathan Demme, Jerry Rice, Stephen Frears, Teresa Palmer, Justin Townes Earle, Method Man, Phil Simms, Two Door Cinema Club, Sherri Shepherd, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Ari Graynor, Joe Namath, Blues Traveler, Derek Luke,  Alexis Krauss of Sleigh Bells and more.

I’ve written for the New York Post, Playboy, Esquire, New York Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Black Book Magazine, Time Out New York, Gawker, The Village Voice, and more. I contributed Best Film Deaths to the pop culture book, The Enlightened Bracketologist: The Final Four of Everything (Bloomsbury, 2007). I’ve been interviewed by New York Times, New York Post, ESPN radio, NPR and more.

I’ve worked on high-level content/branding projects for Transcend, Velocidi, Egg Design, and others. At the core of my work is the strategizing and creating of compelling branded content across different mediums. Clients have includedTranscend (B2B), Phillips (Consumer Product), Cybex (Lifestyle), Medidata(Pharma/SaaS), TRA Global (Tech) and La Prairie (Beauty).

When my fingers are not dancing on the keyboard, I enjoy music (my favorites of 2013: Aloe Blacc, Arcade Fire, James Blake, Basia Bulat, Johnny Marr), films (my favorites of 2013: Her, Nebraska, The Spectacular Now, Side Effects, Stories We Tell,  Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me), skiing, taking in a baseball game, rafting on the Ramapo River with friends, and winding late-night conversations.

 
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