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Matthew Pitt is the author of three works of fiction: the novel Tear Here, and the story collections These Are Our Demands (Midwest Book Award winner) and Attention Please Now (Autumn House Prize winner). He has published stories in Oxford American, BOMB, Story, EPOCH, Cincinnati Review, The Southern Review, Conjunctions, and scores of other publications. A native of St. Louis, Matt now operates out of Ft. Worth, where he is an Associate Professor of English at TCU.

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I am not writing Sudoku Books

I am a fiction writer. I don't write puzzles. My books are Attention Please Now, These Are Our Demands, and Tear Here (forthcoming 2/19/26).

I suppose if you want to pay me, I will write a Sudoku book, but the money would have to be amazing.

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	Attention Please Now 3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Best Short Stories from The Saturday Evening Post Great American Fiction Contest 2017 by Myles McDonough (Goodreads Author), Joyce Barbagallo, Christine Venzon 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	These Are Our Demands 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tear Here: a Novel (Carnegie Mellon University Press Fiction Series) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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