Juliet Escoria

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Juliet Escoria
Escoria.jpg
Escoria in 2014
OccupationWriter, artist
NationalityAmerican
Education Brooklyn College (MFA)
Genre Literary Fiction
Website
julietescoria.com

Juliet Escoria is an American writer. She was born in Australia, raised in San Diego, and lives in West Virginia with her husband, the writer and martial artist Scott McClanahan. [1]

Contents

She published a collection of stories with accompanying videos [2] titled Black Cloud (2014). Black Cloud received positive reviews at Flavorwire , [3] Bullet Magazine [4] and Volume 1 Brooklyn [5] It was mentioned in the lists of best books of 2014 at The Fader , [6] Salon , [7] and Flavorwire .

Escoria's work has appeared in publications such as Electric Literature, Hobart, [8] VICEThe Believer, [9] and Guernica. Escoria holds an MFA in Fiction Writing from Brooklyn College.

Escoria also created companion videos to accompany the stories in Black Cloud. [10]

Critical response

In his positive review of Juliet the Maniac for NPR, Gabino Iglesias said, "Juliet The Maniac is a heartfelt, raw, powerfully told story about surviving mental illness and learning to cope with inner demons. Escoria is a talented writer who's not afraid to write her truth, even when it will scrape viciously at the souls of readers." [11] In her review for The New York Times, Elizabeth Nicholas compared the novel to Sylvia Plath, Joan Didion, and Ottessa Moshfegh, adding, "Juliet Escoria’s autofictive debut novel, Juliet the Maniac, is a worthy new entry in that pantheon of deconstruction. Told in a series of fragments spanning the teenage years in which bipolar Juliet’s life unravels, it is a narrative that insists on its own severity." [12]

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ Escoria, Juliet. Hobart (magazine) , September 6, 2014. "True Life: I Married Scott McClanahan"
  2. ↑ Juliet Escoria's Vimeo account
  3. ↑ Diamond, Jason, Flavorwire, July 15, 2014, "The Best Indie Literature of 2014 So Far".
  4. ↑ Maharry, Lindsay, Bullett, June 13, 2014, "The Sexual Masochism of Juliet Escoria".
  5. ↑ Carroll, Tobias, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, May 6, 2014, "Talking Literary Viscera, Memory, and EMA with Juliet Escoria".
  6. ↑ Fader, The, December 19, 2014, "The FADER Presents: LISTMANIA! 2014".
  7. ↑ Filgate, Michele, December 29, 2014, "Salon’s What to Read Awards: Top critics choose the best books of 2014".
  8. ↑ Escoria, Juliet, Hobart, September 6, 2014, "True Life: I Married Scott McClanahan".
  9. ↑ Escoria, Juliet, The Believer, November 7, 2014, "An Interview with Lindsay Hunter" Archived 2015-09-09 at the Wayback Machine .
  10. ↑ Escoria, Juliet, Vimeo, 2014 "Juliet Escoria's videos".
  11. ↑ Iglesias, Gabino, NPR, May 1, 2019, "For 'Juliet The Maniac,' Healing Had To Come From Within".
  12. ↑ Nicholas, Elizabeth, The New York Times, June 24, 2019, "For Fans of Ottessa Moshfegh, a Debut Novel of Female Psychosis".
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