Jarret Middleton | Author
Jarret Middleton is the author of the novel, DARKANSAS, available in hardcover from Dzanc Books in August 2017. His fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared widely in print and online. He lives in Seattle.
The Apostles of The Culture Industry – The Quarterly Conversation
The Apostles of The Culture Industry Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School by Stuart Jeffries. Verso Books. $26.95, 448pp. Jarret Middleton The Institute for Social Research was founded at the University of Frankfurt in Germany in 1923, existing in many incarnations and locales across the globe until the 1970s. (After a lapse,...
DARKANSAS on list of new literary horror
The Creeping Resurgence of Literary Horror Jarret Middleton, Darkansas There are aspects of Jarret Middleton’s novel Darkansas that seem almost self-consciously literary and realistic: its protagonist is a hard-living musician who’s spent his whole life in the shadow of his father, and his twin brother’s wedding offers the potential of reconciliation with his family. And...
DARKANSAS pre-order now available!
Darkansas Jarret Middleton Fiction Hardcover 220 Pages 978-1945814297 *available August 8th, 2017 PRE-ORDER Jordan is a country musician living in the shadow of his father, legendary bluegrass musician Walker Bayne. A lifetime of poor decisions has led him on an endless tour of San Antonio dive bars, where between sets he resumes accruing women...
3/22 In Discussion with Tom Hansen & Sean Beaudoin at Elliot Bay Book Company
In Discussion with Tom Hansen & Sean Beaudoin at Elliot Bay Book Company http://www.elliottbaybook.com/event/tom-hansen-sean-beaudoin-joshua-mohr Tom Hansen’s American Junkie, first published by Emergency Press in in 2010, comes out in a new edition this month from Softskull Press, with an introduction by Sean Beaudoin. Both writers appear together tonight, followed by a Q&A moderated by...
Find Me At Winter Institute 2017!
I will be signing advance copies of Darkansas at ABA Winter Institute 2017 in Minneapolis, MN from January 27th-30th! Come find me at the author reception, cocktail hour, or the small press closing reception. More info at http://www.bookweb.org/wi2017/winter-institute-author-appearances
The Philosophical Novel
The Philosophical Novel Richard Hugo House, Fall 2016 https://hugohouse.org/store/class/the-philosophical-novel-jarret-middleton/ All Levels. Existential dread, morality, contradiction, dissolution, negation, not-knowing . . . we will cover it all in our investigation of the philosophical novel. Develop rumination, inquiry, and effect in your work by taking an in-depth look at the techniques used by a vast array...
Talking with Geoff Dyer: The Shape of the Landscape
The Writer’s Life Geoff Dyer: The Shape of the Landscape A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Geoff Dyer has received the Somerset Maugham Award, the E.M. Forster Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism and, in...
Ross Howell Jr.: Guilt and Hatred Under Jim Crow
http://www.shelf-awareness.com/readers-issue.html?issue=475#m8319 Ross Howell Jr.: Guilt and Hatred Under Jim Crow Ross Howell Jr. has taught essay writing, fiction and literature at Harvard University, Simmons College, the University of Virginia and currently at Elon University. He earned an M.F.A. at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He lives in Greensboro, N.C.Forsaken (NewSouth Books, February 1) is...
Bill Beverly: Four Characters Finding Trouble
http://www.shelf-awareness.com/max-issue.html?issue=182#m380 Bill Beverly: Four Characters Finding Trouble Bill Beverly grew up in Kalamazoo, Mich., and studied at Oberlin College and the University of Florida. His research on criminal fugitives and the stories surrounding them became the book On the Lam: Narratives of Flight in J. Edgar Hoover’s America. His debut novel,Dodgers, will be published...
The Drama of Flight – Interview with Benjamin Johncock about his debut novel, The Last Pilot
The Writer’s Life Benjamin Johncock: The Drama of Flight Benjamin Johncock is the recipient of an Arts Council England grant and the American Literary Merit Award and writes for the Guardian. He lives in Norwich, England, with his wife, daughter and son. His first novel, The Last Pilot, follows test pilot Jim Harrison and...
All History Is Contemporary History – Interview with Timothy Snyder about his new book, Black Earth
Timothy Snyder: All History Is Contemporary History Timothy Snyder is the author of Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin and the new Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning. He is the Housum Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow of the Institute for Human Sciences. He lives in New Haven,...
Seattle Fiction Federation No. 3
Jarret Middleton, Stacey Levine, Erik Evenson & open mic winner Laura Germano. 8 open mic readers drawn by lot, winner gets a featured slot at SFF 4. Free! The Stranger highly suggests you attend!
