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Matthew Pitt

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A native of St. Louis, Matthew Pitt’s first story collection, ATTENTION PLEASE NOW, won the Autumn House Prize, and was later a winner of Late Night Library’s Debut-litzer Prize and finalist for the Texas Writers League Book Award. Pitt’s fiction has received numerous honors and awards, and is forthcoming or has appeared in Oxford American, BOMB, Conjunctions, Epoch, Cincinnati Review, BEST NEW AMERICAN VOICES, and elsewhere.
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The Facades by Eric Lundgren

  • Matthew Pitt
  • December 12, 2013
Matthew Pitt reviews Eric Lundgren's THE FACADES today in The Rumpus Book Review.
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Possibility: Essays Against Despair
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“Possibility: Essays Against Despair,” by Patricia Vigderman

  • Matthew Pitt
  • May 9, 2013
I like Patricia Vigderman because she likes jickjacking. She describes in “A Writer’s Harvest”, an earlier piece in Possibility: Essays Against Despair, how the sight of that slangy word, in…
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Pitt on Parker

  • Matthew Pitt
  • May 17, 2010
The Rumpus assigned “dueling reviews” to the authors of two new short story collections. It didn’t really work out so well.
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Slouching Towards Baltimore

  • Matthew Pitt
  • February 18, 2010
Geoffrey Becker’s second novel races across the country in the company of “spiritual beings having a human experience.”
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Tunneling to the Center of the Earth

  • Matthew Pitt
  • April 25, 2009
A new and heralded collection of short stories digs to the heart of obsession, isolation, and strangeness.
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