Author: jasonboog
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The Legend of Euchre
August 23, 2024
From German farmers to shipwrecked sailors to lonely astronauts, the card game
euchre has helped us cope with alien environments.
The Deep End
April 20, 2022
I’m proud to say you can now buy my book, The Deep End: The Literary Scene in the Great Depression and Today. I’ve worked on this project for the last ten years, exploring the different ways writers survived the Great Depression. You can read more about my project at Why is this interesting?, Jewish Book […]
The Ravens Revisited
April 19, 2020
Throughout the Great Depression, the Raven Poetry Circle sold poems in Washington Square Park and hosted readings in their apartments. In honor of that band of scrappy poets, we’ve put together a virtual reading with writers from around the country. You can watch the first installment below, and you can sign up for the next […]
Artificial Intelligence & Writing
January 2, 2020
Can you imagine was it like to hear a synthesizer for the first time? To be one of the first musicians to make music with this technology that has changed the way we think about composition and sound? Writers have a similar opportunity right now — to be among the first to experiment with remarkable […]
Publishers Weekly Stories
August 10, 2019
I am the West Coast correspondent for Publishers Weekly, and I like to share my stories on this page… Formerly Self-Published Italian Author Lands Netflix Series 27-year-old Antonio Dikele Distefano is the child of Angolan immigrants, and his formerly self-published novels explore the lives the children of immigrants. “I show Italian kids that there is […]