The Purpose of Memory: A Conversation with Jonathan Corcoran

The Purpose of Memory: A Conversation with Jonathan Corcoran

[ad_1] Jonathan Corcoran has been writing about West Virginia and Appalachia since before I met him. We were both attending graduation programs at Rutgers University–Newark. After graduating, we continued meeting semi-regularly for an informal writing workshop where we would critique each other’s work and gossip about writers we knew. It was here, nine years ago, … Read more

An Interview with Jonathan Escoffery on “If I Survive You” – Chicago Review of Books

An Interview with Jonathan Escoffery on “If I Survive You” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] In Jonathan Escoffery’s debut short story collection, If I Survive You, a mother, a father, and their two sons move between Jamaica and Miami together, apart. Alone. At turns cruel and harsh, and tender and loving, this collection is a gut punch. It circles around race, home, family, masculinity, and the elusive, torturous American … Read more