Jayson Greene

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Jayson Greene (born 1981or1982) [1] is an American author, music critic and editor. He has served as a senior editor of online music magazine Pitchfork [1] and is the author of Once More We Saw Stars, a memoir about the death of his two-year-old daughter, in 2015. [2] The book, released May 14, 2019, [3] received a starred review from Publishers Weekly [4] and was named to lists of most-anticipated books of 2019 by Entertainment Weekly , the Observer, New York magazine's Vulture , Elle, Oprah Magazine and Bustle . [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

Reviewing Once More We Saw Stars for The New York Times , Alex Witchel praised the book as "a revelation of lightness and agility. That [Greene] managed to keep his facility for language during a period where it often disappears is a miracle. He has created a narrative of grief and acceptance that is compulsively readable and never self-indulgent." [11] Rolling Stone gave it four of five stars, noting that the story which "might be too bleak to face" instead is "an intensely moving, life-affirming story about a young couple moving through the darkest depths of grief together, making it up as they go along." [12]

References

  1. 1 2 Maher, John (February 10, 2017). "Knopf to Publish Memoir of a Father's Loss". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  2. ↑ Chaban, Matt A. V.; Rojas, Rick (18 May 2015). "Girl, 2, Dies After Being Struck by Falling Piece of Windowsill in Manhattan". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  3. ↑ Cowdrey, Katherine (November 23, 2018). "Hodder buys bereaved father's 'moving' memoir". The Bookseller. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  4. ↑ "Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir". Publishers Weekly. January 16, 2019. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  5. ↑ Kelly, Hillary (January 7, 2019). "37 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2019". Vulture. New York Magazine. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  6. ↑ Canfield, David (December 20, 2018). "The 50 most anticipated books of 2019". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  7. ↑ Jarema, Kerri (April 4, 2019). "29 New Memoirs To Make Your Spring Reading Dreams Come True". Bustle. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  8. ↑ Tang, Estelle (11 March 2019). "The Best Books to Read This Spring". Elle. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  9. ↑ LeBlanc, Lauren (18 March 2019). "The 16 Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2019". Observer. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  10. ↑ Haber, Leigh; Hart, Michelle (21 March 2019). "Everyone's Talking About These Books – Here's Why". Oprah Magazine. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  11. ↑ Witchel, Alex (13 May 2019). "Grieving the Death of a Child in 'Once More We Saw Stars' (Published 2019)". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
  12. ↑ Sheffield, Rob (2019-05-15). "Book Review: Jayson Greene's 'Once More We Saw Stars' is a Staggering Work of Quiet Heartbreak". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2020-12-18.