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Jesse Ball


USA flag (b.1978)

Jesse Ball is an American poet. He has published volumes of poetry, short prose, and drawings. His first novel was published in 2007.


Genres: Literary Fiction, Horror
 
New and upcoming books
September 2024

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The Repeat Room
 
Novels
   Samedi the Deafness (2007)
   The Way Through Doors (2009)
   The Curfew (2011)
   Silence Once Begun (2014)
   A Cure for Suicide (2015)
   How to Set a Fire and Why (2016)
   The Deaths of Henry King (2016) (with Brian Evenson)
   Census (2018)
   The Diver's Game (2019)
   The Repeat Room (2024)
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Collections
   March Book (poems) (2004)
   Vera & Linus (poems) (2006)
   The Village on Horseback (poems) (2011)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   The Lesson (2015)
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Non fiction show
 
Books containing stories by Jesse Ball
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018 (2018)
(Best American Nonrequired Reading)
edited by
Sheila Heti
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2016 (2016)
(Best American Nonrequired Reading)
edited by
Rachel Kushner

Awards
2017 Granta Best of Young American Novelists

Award nominations
2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (nominee) : Silence Once Begun


Jesse Ball recommends
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Gretel and the Great War (2024)
Adam Ehrlich Sachs
"His lunatics clamor to be believed, but Sachs wants something else: pin-thin-fancies that braid a rope to make your legs dance."
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Life Is Everywhere (2022)
Lucy Ives
"The superb Lucy Ives slays enemy and friend alike in this multivalent successor to Jarrell's Pictures from an Institution."
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Bubblegum (2020)
Adam Levin
"A book may be said to be a kind of fist, and the readers of such a fist-book as Bubblegum can surely not predict or prepare for the ecstatic bewilderment of the encounter, particularly when they are greeted in the depths of it by long-form theoretical analysis of their plight."

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