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.
Murder, Myth, and Metaphor at Powell’s Blog
Murder, Myth, and Metaphor by Jarret Middleton, August 3, 2017 9:39 AM Whenever I teach a class or a workshop, I usually try to include a segment on the shapes of stories. Bolaño’s By Night In Chile is a self-referential linear confessional, as is Bernhard’s The Loser. Lispector’s The Passion According to G.H. is a recurrent fever dream that moves the...
DARKANSAS in Publishers Weekly
Darkansas Jarret Middleton. Dzanc, $26.95 (216p) ISBN 978-1-945814-29-7 From the get-go, Middleton grabs readers with an eerie dream about a violent death, a portent of things to come in his page-turning debut about a family’s curse. Generations of male Bayne twins are destined to be the catalysts in their fathers’ deaths. Jordan Bayne, a down-on-his-luck...
DARKANSAS a Vol.1 Brooklyn August Recommended Read!
Volume 1 Brooklyn’s August Book Preview Darkansas, Jarret Middleton (August 8, Dzanc Books) Finding the right phrase to describe Jarret Middleton’s new novel isn’t easy. It’s a tale of the tensions within a family; it’s the story of that family’s bloody history; and it’s an account of bizarre and uncanny forces heightening existing conflicts and...
DARKANSAS a Chicago Review of Books August Must-Read!
12 New Books You Should Definitely Read This August Chicago Review of Books Darkansas by Jarret Middleton Dzanc Books, August 8th “Jordan is a country musician living in the shadow of his father, legendary bluegrass musician Walker Bayne. A man who has made a lifetime of poor decisions, Jordan bounces between dive bars, accruing women...
Shelf Awareness Review of DARKANSAS
Shelf Awareness Pro Review: Darkansas Darkansas by Jarret Middleton (Dzanc Books, $26.95 hardcover, 216p., 9781945814297, August 8, 2017) There is plenty of dark in Jarret Middleton’s cleverly titled novel Darkansas. Rooting through the Ozark hills and hollers reminiscent of the hillbilly noir of Daniel Woodrell, Middleton kicks up the violent secrets of generations of Baynes and their genetic...
Kirkus Review of DARKANSAS
KIRKUS REVIEW Two brothers return home to rural Arkansas to face their ordained destiny. Middleton (An Dantomine Eerly, 2010) edits an imprint of Counterpoint Press and is clearly no stranger to the attractions of horror-tinged fiction. In his new novel, he spins an eerie Southern gothic about a down-on-his-luck country singer who comes home...
DARKANSAS on Barnes & Noble Must-Read Summer Indie List!
12 Must-Read Indie Books Coming This Summer Darkansas, by Jarret Middleton Middleton’s tale is irresistibly gothic: Jordan Bayne is the son of legendary bluegrass musician Walker Bayne. He’s talented, but a series of bad decisions find him locked into a low-rent tour of dive bars, drinking and womanizing far too much. He returns home for the...
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
