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J. A. Tyler

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J. A. Tyler is the author of The Zoo, a Going (Dzanc Books). His work has appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Diagram, Denver Quarterly, New York Tyrant, Fairy Tale Review, and others. Find him online at jasonalantyler.com or on Twitter at @J_A_Tyler.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #229: Joshua Harmon

  • J. A. Tyler
  • August 20, 2020
“Technology is our most common landscape, no?”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #207: Andrew Weatherhead

  • J. A. Tyler
  • February 13, 2020
“I want my art to be symbiotic with my life, not separate from it.”
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Book of Numbers by Joshua Cohen

  • J. A. Tyler
  • June 1, 2015
J. A. Tyler reviews Book of Numbers by Joshua Cohen today in Rumpus Books.
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Kind One
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“Kind One,” by Laird Hunt

  • J. A. Tyler
  • April 18, 2013
Released from Coffee House Press in September 2012 and recently honored as one of four PEN/Faulkner Award finalists, Laird Hunt’s Kind One is a crushing and beautiful book. Taking place…
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Dora
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“Dora,” by Lidia Yuknavitch

  • J. A. Tyler
  • February 28, 2013
Lidia Yuknavitch's Dora: A Headcase is an uncomfortable, edgy, affecting novel. The Chronology of Water had the same charge: take challenging subject matter and build a narrative akin to unpacking tension-wracked nesting dolls, cumulative sadness and worry with each new section.
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“HHhH,” by Laurent Binet

  • J. A. Tyler
  • October 18, 2012
Winner of the 2010 Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman and translated from the French by Sam Taylor, Laurent Binet’s novel HHhH centers around the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, referenced in…
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Us by Michael Kimball

  • J. A. Tyler
  • May 29, 2012
A beautiful wrought novel now re-released, Michael Kimball’s Us tells the story of death from three divergent angles.
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The Misperceptions of Being a Stranger in a Strange Land

  • J. A. Tyler
  • January 19, 2012
Event Factory is proof that as Renee Gladman has something new to offer, the perspective of invented linguistics encountered as a traveler.
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Irreconcilable Differences

  • J. A. Tyler
  • November 7, 2011
Gary Lutz’s new collection, divorcer, tells seven stories of divorce that will captivate every reader―single, married or divorced.
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If Hemingway Were a Poet

  • J. A. Tyler
  • September 12, 2011
In poet Ben Lerner’s debut novel, Leaving the Atocha Station, we follow expat Adam Gordon as he travels Spain managing the boundaries between art and life.
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The Bee-Loud Glade

  • J. A. Tyler
  • April 4, 2011
Steve Himmer’s The Bee-Loud Glade is a rubber-band, stretching from nature to virtual reality and back.
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Color Plates

  • J. A. Tyler
  • March 8, 2011
Built on a walk through a privately-owned museum, a four-chambered version of art, Color Plates is not an easily defnable book.
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