Matthew Pitt

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“With whimsy and guts, Matthew Pitt delineates the botched hopes and stylized vanities of his wildly imagined characters. These are boldly drawn, delicately surprising stories—remarkable reports from unexplored pockets of reality.”

—Joan Silber, author of Ideas of Heaven
 (National Book Award and Story Prize Finalist)

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—Joan Silber, author of Ideas of Heaven
 (National Book Award and Story Prize Finalist)

“With whimsy and guts, Matthew Pitt delineates the botched hopes and stylized vanities of his wildly imagined characters. These are boldly drawn, delicately surprising stories—remarkable reports from unexplored pockets of reality.”

"These are Our Demands vibrate with the ‘magical every day’, each one finely tuned to the strange, hilarious and often unsettling pulse that beats beneath the ordinary...will keep you smiling and thinking for days."

—Ana Menéndez, author of Adios, Happy Homeland!

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—Ana Menéndez, author of Adios, Happy Homeland!

"These are Our Demands vibrate with the ‘magical every day’, each one finely tuned to the strange, hilarious and often unsettling pulse that beats beneath the ordinary...will keep you smiling and thinking for days."

"An inventive, powerful collection. It showcases Pitt’s keen eye for the ways that his characters struggle to be more than the person that they are, despite the fact that they are, as one story puts it, ‘falling behind the curve.’”

—Kevin Wilson, author of The Family Fang

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—Kevin Wilson, author of The Family Fang

"An inventive, powerful collection. It showcases Pitt’s keen eye for the ways that his characters struggle to be more than the person that they are, despite the fact that they are, as one story puts it, ‘falling behind the curve.’”

“In turns both dark and shimmering, Matthew Pitt’s beautiful prose simmers with uncertainty and unease, humor and heartache, tenderness and toughness."

—Aryn Kyle, author of The God of Animals

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—Aryn Kyle, author of The God of Animals

“In turns both dark and shimmering, Matthew Pitt’s beautiful prose simmers with uncertainty and unease, humor and heartache, tenderness and toughness."

The characters in These Are Our Demands grasp at last chances. Through subversive—and sometimes fabulist—satire, this collection explores ways in which consignment to the margins opens up a kind of wilderness beyond the borders of polite society.
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“A remarkable debut by a brilliant young writer.”
—Brian Morton, author of Breakable You and Starting Out in the Evening, a PEN/Faulkner finalist

Matthew Pitt is a writer who understands and explores the strange balance between the serious and the comic, the quirky and the familiar. Irresistibly complex, always imaginative, these eleven stories showcase an immensely talented writer grappling with the ironies and difficulties of life in the new century.
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