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Hi there! I enjoyed reading your opinion piece, "my not so bad birth defect" in the NY Times yesterday, because I too was born with the same condition. And, I realized while reading the article that my right hand is shorter than the left! Much of your st

That is so wonderful to hear! I’m so glad that the article resonated with you!

Hello, Kristopher! For the first time, today in fact, I heard the words Poland Syndrome. I feel like there's a new world in front of me, on another dimension I never knew existed, and has been beckoning for many years. I can hardly tear myself away fr

That is so wonderful to hear! I’m so glad that the article resonated with you!

Kristopher, I was overwhelmed by your story MY Not So Bad Birth Defect. I should have written that story How I wish I had for it is my story, tool My trainer is always calling me the pec-less wonder! My not so bad birth defect was discovered 50 years ago

Thanks so much for reaching out! I’m so glad to hear that the article resonated for you! It has been wonderful to know that so many other people have had similar experiences to mine.

My Not-So-Bad Birth Defect in the New York Times

My Not-So-Bad Birth Defect in the New York Times

The Center for Fiction

The Center for Fiction:

The Science of Magical Thinking

“Magic is the crown or nightmare of the law of cause and effect, not its contradiction. Miracles are no less strange in this universe than in that of astronomers. It is ruled by all of the laws of nature as well as those of imagination.” —Jorge Luis Borges

Why Kristopher Jansma's Book Is A Must Read For Twenty Somethings | 106.7 Lite fm

Why Kristopher Jansma's Book Is A Must Read For Twenty Somethings | 106.7 Lite fm:

'At First You Don't Want Death to Mean Anything': An Interview with Kristopher Jansma | Hazlitt

'At First You Don't Want Death to Mean Anything': An Interview with Kristopher Jansma | Hazlitt:

The author of Why We Came to the City on losing someone to cancer too young, and how New York reminds everyone they’re not special.

Today is paperback day for WHY WE CAME TO THE CITY, the book...

Today is paperback day for WHY WE CAME TO THE CITY, the book that The New York Times called “a love letter to Manhattan.”

Pick up a copy of your first great read of the summer at your local bookstore or online!

Kit Reed at the Miami Herald described it as a “wonderful, unforgettable novel” about “an intricate web of lives in the big city… [Jansma] writes with power and passion about a loving quartet of friends and one hopeful outsider, all restless twentysomethings building new lives in New York.”

It’s a book that you’ll love and love again. I can’t wait to share it with everyone.

I’ll post more soon about upcoming readings and events, but here is a full schedule.

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Looking For The Best Books Of 2016? NPR's Concierge Is Here To Help

Looking For The Best Books Of 2016? NPR's Concierge Is Here To Help:

Thanks very much to writer and critic Michael Schaub, who selected Why We Came to the City as one of NPR’s Best Books of 2016!

Check out his full thoughts on the novel here, which he called a “a beautiful, sprawling and generous book”

Amazed and humbled and proud to have my story...

Amazed and humbled and proud to have my story “Chumship” from last winter’s Zyzzyva listed here among the Other Distinguished Stories in the upcoming Best American Short Stories 2016, edited by the great Junot Diaz.

I am in superb company as well, with my colleage Insu Fenkl here at SUNY New Paltz, and at least three former Columbia University MFA classmates!