Press

Interviews and Features: Vogue / Kirkus/ Observer / ATM Magazine / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / Little Village / Rolling Stone / NY Mag’s Grub Street Diet / NPR

Reviews: Kirkus / BookPage / Los Angeles Review of Books / Soapberry Review / New York Times Editor’s Choice / The New Yorker / Autostraddle / The Millions

“Mathews has a big heart and a sharp tongue…[and] a wonderful eye for the things that make friendship and community just as valuable as romance.” —The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)

“A dazzling debut . . . There is so much here to chew on: economic and food insecurity, tenants’ rights, coming into one’s own, queer romance, immigration, and the vitality of friendship. All This Could Be Different is an epic and beautiful first novel from a writer to watch.” —them.

Regarding press or media inquiries for All This Could Be Different, please reach out to Sara Delozier at Viking Books

“Both lyrical and page-turning . . . All This Could Be Different, in which the lives of a group of millennials become fascinatingly entangled. . . offers us a panoramic view of mingled desires, fears, and joys that will be familiar to readers of Eliot and Austen.” —Los Angeles Review of Books

“What fuels All This Could Be Different is love, a force Mathews portrays not as a panacea, but as an instrument of change.” —The New Yorker

“Mathews’ novel is written at the sustained level of a growl. It is understated, dangerous, and sexy—both warning and invitation. The sentences are taut and precise, and each layer of shame unfurls painstakingly with the reticence of a petal. All This Could Be Different is a novel that shows us the work of love in its highest form…a stunning ethos and debut from a voice I’d follow to Milwaukee, and wherever else she chooses to take us.” —The Soapberry Review