Scribner, 2017: Out Now in Paperback
Italian: Longanesi, Milan 2018
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"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
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UK Hardcover: William Heinemann/Penguin, August 2017
German: Goldmann Verlag/Random House, 2018
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* 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.
* 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.
Happenings(Click HERE for Upcoming Events.)
How to Stop Breaking Up: An essay I wrote about my wife and I for The New York Times ' Modern Love column. Also translated for the September 2017 issue of Vanity Fair, Italy. 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. Reading Habits: A recent interview with Humanities Washington, and another with the KREM-2 Book Club. Radio Interview with KGNU/Boulder Book Store, and After Hours at the Radio Bookclub. Radio Interview on Colorado Public Radio: HE WORKED AT THE TATTERED COVER. NOW HIS NEW MYSTERY IS BASED THERE. Click to listen. Story: Roxane Gay recently selected my short story, "Little Men," for inclusion in The Masters Review anthology, Volume VI. 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:
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BioMatthew 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. He and his family recently relocated to Anacortes, Washington.
photo by Lucid Concepts, Moses Lake, WA
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