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 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!
Violence in Ferguson, Violence in The System
VIOLENCE IN FERGUSON, VIOLENCE IN THE SYSTEM JARRET MIDDLETON Tuesday, December 2, 2014 “Violence is man recreating himself.” —Frantz Fanon IN THE WAKE of the grand jury failing to return a verdict to try Darren Wilson for murdering Micheal Brown, many people are saying that they don’t understand why people in Ferguson would riot, or...
The Greatest Game on Earth: The 2014-2015 NHL Hockey Preview
THE GREATEST GAME ON EARTH: 2014 NHL SEASON PREVIEW JARRET MIDDLETON Thursday, October 9, 2014 THAT SPECIAL TIME is upon us once again: hockey is back. Die-hard fans everywhere are breathing collective sighs of relief, no longer having to feign interest in anything else in their lives, wondering how they ever went through an entire...
The Highest Luxury: Reading Ranciere and the Beauty of Forgetting
The Highest Luxury: Reading Ranciere and the Beauty of Forgetting Jarret Middleton The Weeklings Beauty is defined by indeterminacy and the absence of expressivity. — Jacques Ranciere, Aisthesis
Talking with Andre Dubus III on Dirty Love and the Sacred Relationship Between Reader and Book
Interview by Jarret Middleton Read the full interview at Shelf Awareness Shelf Awareness Friday, October 8th, 2013 Andre Dubus III is touring the country for his newest book, Dirty Love (Norton), a collection of linked novellas whose characters fight with the darker side of love and the very possible realization of their deepest fears....
Vol. 1 Brooklyn: Talking H.P. Lovecraft and “The Natural Dissolution of Fleeting-Improvised Men” with Gabriel Blackwell
Vol. 1 Brooklyn Talking H.P. Lovecraft and “The Natural Dissolution of Fleeting-Improvised Men” with Gabriel Blackwell By Jarret Middleton Read the full interview at Vol. 1 Brooklyn Gabriel Blackwell has been productive as hell lately, lurking under the radar of most readers as a fully able, hyper-intelligent chronicler of darkly imagined fictions. His newest release,...
