Jayson Greene (born 1981 or 1982)[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. ^ a b 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.

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