Joe Okonkwo
Auteur van Jazz Moon
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Joe Okonkwo is an award-winning novelist, short story writer, and editor. His debut novel Jazz Moon won the Publishing Triangle's prestigious 2016 Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Fiction. A cum laude graduate of the University of toon meer Houston with a BA in theater, Joe also holds an MEA in Creative Writing from City College of New York. toon minder
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- Joe Okwonko is an American writer, whose debut novel Jazz Moon won the Edmund White Award and was shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction, in 2017. Originally from Syracuse, New York, he has been based in New York City since 2000.
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"How to Survive Overwhelming Loss and Lonliness In 5 Easy Steps" by David James Parr: This one is a slice of tragedy told in punchy sentences around the five easy steps, and it's good. Not cheery, but good.
"Black Sheep Boy" by Martin Pousson: this one lost me a bit, and feels like a vignette more than a story, but it kept me reading.
"Dancing in the Dark" by Edgar Gomez: beautiful. Terrifying, but quietly, mostly, except when it isn't.
"One More Day" by George Seaton: This one wears farm life like a skin and is bittersweet.
At 20% in:
"In Our Cars" by Mark William Lindberg: I hated everything about this one except it's short. Like a punch. And as painful.
"Usefulness" by Val Prozorova: soothing. Not my kink at all, but soothing.
"Off the Hudson" by Mike Dressel: well written. I hate it.
There is where I stopped, at 29%, instantly relieved to be done. Reminded that in most cases, "best" means "most depressing."… (meer)