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Yoko Tawada and Hernan Diaz are among the 2022 Kirkus Prize finalists; Sarah Jones remembers Barbara Ehrenreich
... Sarah Jones offers a remembrance of activist and author Barbara Ehrenreich, who died last...
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Breaking the Waves
... (Historian Alice Echols suggests this was the weekend when women’s liberation took hold as an organizing term.) The paper’s coauthors, Judith Brown and Beverly Jones, made such an impression that, shortly...
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Danzy Senna on writing “New People”; Terry Pratchett’s unfinished work destroyed by steamroller
... than my novel at the time.” At Mother Jones, Shane Bauer explains what journalists got...
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Jul 2, 2013 @ 12:18:00 am
... novelst Shane Jones (Light Boxes) poses the question to “a literary agent at a reputable firm” (who preferred to remain anonymous) and concludes that, contrary to his initial suspicion, “publications...
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Aug 1, 2012 @ 12:07:00 am
...://www.themillions.com/2012/07/700-cats-why-i-write.html> for The Millions, Shane Jones reflects on the guilt tied up with being a writer, and how a remark he once read from a woman with seven hundred...
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Jun 28, 2012 @ 12:47:00 am
...> featuring work by Shane Jones, Catherine Lacey, Adam Wilson, Blake Butler, Jess Walter, and Roxanne Gay, is now available to download as a PDF. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies put a camp twist on...
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Apr 11, 2012 @ 4:00:00 am
...-tours> chime in on the do’s and don’ts of book tours. Here’s Shane Jones, author of the surprise hit novel Light Boxes, which has been optioned by director Spike Jonze: “Albany (drove myself; made...
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Light Boxes by Shane Jones
... The striking cover image of Shane Jones’s first novel, Light Boxes, is both playful and foreboding, an apt rendering of the novel’s offbeat charm. It reads like a twisted fairy tale. The story...
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PUB DATES
... a more enduring metafictional feat. Spike Jonze recently purchased film rights to Shane Jones’s debut novel, LIGHT BOXES (Penguin, May), a fable of perpetual February. But how to adapt for the...