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Matthew J. Sullivan
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Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
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2017
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Midnight in Soap Lake
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2025
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9 editions
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The 2005 Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories
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2006
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Midnight in Soap Lake: A Novel
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The Fateful Stumbles of a Writing Life (reposted from my Substack)
In the year since my sophomore novel, Midnight in Soap Lake, was published, I’ve been out on the road a lot, visiting bookstores and libraries, chatting with readers, and one question pops up more than any other: what was your path to publication?
There’s a small handful of novelists out there who, at least from the outside, appear to hit all the markers that destine them for this career: they atte Read more of this blog post »
There’s a small handful of novelists out there who, at least from the outside, appear to hit all the markers that destine them for this career: they atte Read more of this blog post »
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“Something’s wrong in the air, you know, when a book costs less than a bullet. Or a Coke. Values-wise.”
― Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
― Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
“All words are masks, and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal. —Steven Millhauser, “August Eschenburg” As”
― Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
― Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
“If you want to pay respects, by the way, he's at the zoo."
"At the zoo? As in the zoo?"
"Joey liked to walk the zoo on free days. I didn't know where else to put him. I thought about leaving him on a shelf upstairs, with Flannery or Fante or Rimbaud. But I figured there were rules against leaving bodies in here."
"Probably."
"So I put his ashes in a duffel bag and snipped a tiny hole in the bottom and walked the length of the zoo. But I didn't make the hole big enough so there were these tiny pieces left over in the bag. I shook them into the grass. But then all the geese thought he was bread crumbs and started charging me. Horrifying, Lydia, the way they gobbled him up. A frenzy. Joey would've abhorred all the attention.”
― Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
"At the zoo? As in the zoo?"
"Joey liked to walk the zoo on free days. I didn't know where else to put him. I thought about leaving him on a shelf upstairs, with Flannery or Fante or Rimbaud. But I figured there were rules against leaving bodies in here."
"Probably."
"So I put his ashes in a duffel bag and snipped a tiny hole in the bottom and walked the length of the zoo. But I didn't make the hole big enough so there were these tiny pieces left over in the bag. I shook them into the grass. But then all the geese thought he was bread crumbs and started charging me. Horrifying, Lydia, the way they gobbled him up. A frenzy. Joey would've abhorred all the attention.”
― Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
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Hi, Happy Friday!It is such an awesome pleasure to reconnect! Also, I think I forgot to mention it before, but the biggest congratulations on your debut novel being published!!!:)
