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Matthew Pitt

A native of St. Louis, Matthew Pittâ€™s first story collection, ATTENTION PLEASE NOW, won the Autumn House Prize, and was later a winner of Late Night Libraryâ€™s Debut-litzer Prize and finalist for the Texas Writers League Book Award. Pittâ€™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.

Features & Reviews, Reviews

Matthew Pitt

Dec 12, 2013

The Facades by Eric Lundgren

Matthew Pitt reviews Eric Lundgren’s THE FACADES today in The Rumpus Book Review.
Features & Reviews, Reviews

Matthew Pitt

May 9, 2013

“Possibility: Essays Against Despair,” by Patricia Vigderman

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 two distinct (but linked) stories—one by Mary Karr, the other…
Features & Reviews, Reviews, Rumpus Original

Matthew Pitt

May 17, 2010

Pitt on Parker

The Rumpus assigned “dueling reviews” to the authors of two new short story collections. It didn’t really work out so well.
Features & Reviews, Reviews, Rumpus Original

Matthew Pitt

Feb 18, 2010

Slouching Towards Baltimore

Geoffrey Becker’s second novel races across the country in the company of “spiritual beings having a human experience.”
Features & Reviews, Reviews, Rumpus Original

Matthew Pitt

Apr 25, 2009

Tunneling to the Center of the Earth

A new and heralded collection of short stories digs to the heart of obsession, isolation, and strangeness.

Matthew Pitt

The Facades by Eric Lundgren

“Possibility: Essays Against Despair,” by Patricia Vigderman

Pitt on Parker

Slouching Towards Baltimore

Tunneling to the Center of the Earth

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