Scribner, 2017: Out Now in Paperback

Italian: Longanesi, Milan 2018

Penguin/Windmill, 2018

Bulgaria, Soft Press, 2018

​"With Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore, Matthew Sullivan has written a smart, twisty crime novel filled with compelling characters set in a world that book-lovers will adore."
        - JESS WALTER, author of the New York Times Bestselling Beautiful Ruins

South Korea: Namu Bench, 2018,

UK Hardcover: William Heinemann/Penguin, August 2017

German: Goldmann Verlag/Random House, 2018

​​* WINNER of the 2018 Colorado Book Award in General Fiction.
* An IndieBound Indie Next pick and Indie Bestseller.
* A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick.
* Goodreads' Debut Author of the Month and Goodreads Choice Award for Debut Novel, Final Round
* A Library-Reads pick.
* Tattered Cover Book Store's Very Impressive Book (VIB) pick.
* SUSPENSE Magazine's Best Books of 2017 Award, Debut Novel
* Seattle Public Library's Top Ten Novels of 2017
* Boulder Book Store/KGNU Radio Book Club.
* American Library Association's Year's Best Genre Fiction, Mystery, shortlist.

​​Recent Happenings​

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Reading Habits: A recent interview with Humanities Washington.

Blood on the Prairie: an essay I wrote for The Daily Beast about the origins of the Hammerman and the real crimes that may finally be solved.

How to Stop Breaking Up:  An essay I wrote for The New York Times ' Modern Love column. Also translated for the September 2017 issue of Vanity Fair, Italy.

Radio Interview with KGNU/Boulder Book Store, and After Hours at the Radio Bookclub.

Story: Roxane Gay recently selected my short story, "Little Men," for inclusion in The Masters Review anthology, Volume VI, being published this fall.

Radio Interview:  Recently broadcast on Colorado Public Radio: HE WORKED AT THE TATTERED COVER. NOW HIS NEW MYSTERY IS BASED THERE. Click to listen.

Podcast Interview: A fun and in-depth chat with David English of David's Book Talk. ​

Recommended reading: I wrote a guest piece for "What They're Reading" on BookPage.

A blog piece for The Page 69 test for the Campaign for the American Reader.

A few other recent publications:

• "Indies to Die For" in THE STRAND MAGAZINE
  
• a piece about getting a bookstore job in SHELF AWARENESS
  
• TWO DECADES OF READING BESIDE THE WOMAN I LOVE published in LIT HUB,
• interviews in THE BIG THRILL (with E.M. Powell); in THE QWILLERY; in TRUNK SPACE; and as GOODREADS Debut Author of the Month.

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Bio

​Matthew Sullivan grew up in a family of eight children in suburban Denver, Colorado. He received his B.A. from the University of San Francisco, his M.F.A. from the University of Idaho, and his short stories have been awarded the Florida Review Editor's Prize and the Robert Olen Butler Fiction Prize. In addition to working for years at Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver and at Brookline Booksmith in Boston, he has taught writing at colleges in Boston, Idaho, and Poland. Since 2003, he has been teaching writing, literature, and film at Big Bend Community College in rural Washington State. He is married to a librarian, Libby, and has two children and a scruffy dog named Ernie.

photo by Lucid Concepts, Moses Lake, WA

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