Gold for Humor 2019 Readers' Favorite Awards
Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist
Amazon Bestseller in Travel Humor & Literary Travel
Amazon #1 New Release Travel Humor * Literary Travel * Solo Travel * Budget Travel
2018 Solas Awards Gold for Humor for the story "Let It Flow."
2019 Solas Awards Gold, Silver, and Bronze winner.
Matthew Félix is not a luxury traveler.
His unorthodox bathing practices in Paris. The Dead Sea shower incident that led to an arrest. The nightmare while he was trapped on a bus without a bathroom in Anatolia, his retelling of which won Gold for Humor in the 2018 Solas Awards.
Maybe it's Matthew's no-frills approach to experiencing the world that gets him into situations that are sometimes hilarious, sometimes cringeworthy. Perhaps it's his questionable willingness to put up with more than most, as seen in his Amazon best-selling With Open Arms. Whatever the reason, whether he's describing a kitchen with a toilet, reliving that time a pudding pop froze to his lips, or recalling when his friend set herself on fire in his apartment, Matthew finds humor in the everyday as much as in the bizarre.
His literary style and spirited wit have garnered him comparisons to Sedaris and Bryson, while Best Travel Writing II contributor Keith Skinner called Matthew's prose "a dance between the richness and delicacy of poetry and the bawdy, acerbic wit of a standup comic."
Porcelain Travels is sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, occasionally shocking, and always entertaining.
"Felix returns with an offbeat yet funny collection of stories of his travels abroad...united by a common theme."
"I laughed so hard at 'No Refuge,' and 'It Ain't Over...' is absolutely hilarious!"
"Sometimes hilarious, sometimes humiliating, Matthew's stories reconfirm the reality that our human needs will be met, one way or another."
"Matthew's prose is a dance between the richness and delicacy of poetry and the bawdy, acerbic wit of a standup comic."
"Matthew Félix's new book, Porcelain Travels is so DAMNED good. The more literary you are, the more hilarious it is ... sophisticated humor and transportive travel writing woven together with finesse."
Porcelain Travels has been awarded Gold for Humor in the 2019 Readers’ Favorite Awards! The awards ceremony will take place in Miami, during the Miami International Book Fair.
Excited and honored to receive a five-star review of Porcelain Travels by Readers’ Favorite!
Reviewer Lesley Jones notes that “Porcelain Travels by Matthew Felix is a truly hysterical book from the outset. … I did want to empathize with (Matthew’s) plight but I was too busy laughing… I absolutely adored his writing style; he describes situations and the emotions he felt so vividly. I highly recommend this book.”
I could hardly be more honored or excited for my new book, Porcelain Travels, to be recognized with three 2019 Solas Awards! Stories from the collection won Gold, Silver, and Bronze in their respective categories. I was also thrilled to receive the Silver Grand Prize for Travel Story of the Year - including the generous $750 cash award! Thanks to Travelers' Tales for sponsoring the competition, and congrats to all the winners!
Porcelain Travels LIVE!
Excited to announce that on March 11 and 25 I will be performing a solo show based on my new book, Porcelain Travels, live on stage!
The show will be part of San Francisco's Marsh theater's Monday Night Marsh (https://themarsh.org/runs/monday-night/), a program spotlighting works-in-progress of emerging solo performers.
Hope to see you there!
I’m excited to announce that I’ve been invited to speak at LitWings in Paris on April 11 at La Caféothèque! I’ll be talking about and reading from my new book Porcelain Travels!
Other presenters include: Film/Docu-series creator Ernest White II; photographer Lone Morch; poet, writer, poetry brothel pimp, SpokenWord host Alberto Rigettini.
Can’t wait to get back to the City of Lights, where several of the stories in the book take place! More details to follow…à plus!
I had a blast reading at Travelers’ Tales Lit Crawl event last Saturday night!
I read my story “Let It Flow,” which won Gold for Humor in this year’s Solas Awards and is featured in my forthcoming book, Porcelain Travels - out 11/11!
Friday, December 7, 2018 at 7 PM – 8:15 PM
Beam to Morocco with Erin Byrne, Matthew Felix, Doug Cordell, Christina Ammon, and Anna Elkins to discover ancient storytellers, vignettes of souks and the Sahara, tagines and Tangier, and stories of Marrakech, Casablanca and Fez.
Matthew will read his story “A Turkish Bath in Morocco,” which appears in his new book Porcelain Travels.
Sleeping in a Chicken Coop in the Arctic Circle – 044
In episode 44, Tom and Mark interview a guest who has slept in a chicken coop in the arctic circle, speaks 3 languages, has been caught up in gunfire in Istanbul, traveled to more than 50 countries, visited India’s holy sites with a Buddhist monk and sailed the Nile River. Matthew Felix, a traveler and author who has lived an amazing life comes on to discuss his surreal travels, after moving through the Travel Tournament Challenge, as well as his radio show and forthcoming book, Porcelain Travels.
The 2018 Solas Awards were announced today, and I could not be more excited or grateful to have been recognized six times, including twice for stories from my forthcoming book, Porcelain Travels. "Let It Flow" won Gold for Humor, and "A Turkish Bath in Morocco" received Honorable Mention.
Monday, November 12th, 2018 || 6pm Book Passage
San Francisco 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco
www.bookpassage.com
Please join us for an uproarious and sometimes rather farfetched evening with Matthew Félix as he debuts his latest book, Porcelain Travels.
