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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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37 editions
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Midnight in Soap Lake
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2025
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The 2005 Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories
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The Scoop on my NEW Novel: MIDNIGHT IN SOAP LAKE!!
Hello Good Readers!
Since you’ve shown interest in my writing, I wanted to share the scoop on my NEW NOVEL, Midnight in Soap Lake, which is publishing on 4/15/25!
As you know from reading Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore, I set out in that novel to capture the rare and open community of the indie bookstore. As a bookseller, I had years of experience in that world and care a lot about it, so i Read more of this blog post »
Since you’ve shown interest in my writing, I wanted to share the scoop on my NEW NOVEL, Midnight in Soap Lake, which is publishing on 4/15/25!
As you know from reading Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore, I set out in that novel to capture the rare and open community of the indie bookstore. As a bookseller, I had years of experience in that world and care a lot about it, so i Read more of this blog post »
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"If you’ve been following me a while, it shouldn’t be surprising that I’m a big fan of Matthew Sullivan. His debut novel, Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore, was one of my favorite books of 2017. There was a lot that it had going for it, and I nev"
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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!!!:)
