Jack Messenger
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What Stella Sees, Sarah Kornfeld’s complex debut novel, is about convergence and displacement. Above all, it is about perception: the consequences of its absence and the obligations of its presence. Young Stella is ill, it seems, with a peculiar form ...more | |
"After so many years of work and research on My Real Name Is Hanna, I'm thrilled to announce that it has just received a Gold Medal in YA from the Florida Book Awards, which declares: "The Florida Book Awards, coordinated by the Florida State Univ..." Read more of this blog post » | |
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Come the Tide is a sun-soaked, water-drenched, variegated collection of thirteen short stories that explores the ambiguous psychic implications of the now-you-see-it/now-you-don’t liminal terrain where dry land meets restless water. Ancient myths hau ...more | |
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Jendi Reiter’s wise and ambitious novel Two Natures is the story of young gay man Julian Selkirk who, Crusoe-like, finds himself washed ashore in New York in 1991 and ‘dependent on the kindness of strangers.’ Julian is an aspiring fashion photographe ...more | |
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“I always feel apprehensive when someone reads my work for the first time. Most writers are probably the same, with a desperate need to be liked – preferably expressed as lavish praise and uncritical admiration.”
― Farewell Olympus
― Farewell Olympus
“So much of a novelist’s writing … takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is written before the word appears on paper. We remember the details of our story, we do not invent them.”
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“For writers it is always said that the first twenty years of life contain the whole of experience – the rest is observation”
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“I always feel apprehensive when someone reads my work for the first time. Most writers are probably the same, with a desperate need to be liked – preferably expressed as lavish praise and uncritical admiration.”
― Farewell Olympus
― Farewell Olympus

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