Jess Row
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Writing the Third Rail
My teacher’s point was, “Don’t write about race. It’s not worth it. It’s the third rail.” Over at Guernica, Grace Bello interviews Jess Row about his new book, Your Face In Mine, writing about race as a white man, identity, and…
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The Rumpus Weekly Review of Books
A brutal Irish girlhood, a medical procedure that can change your race, and a novel narrated by the brilliant Russian inventor of the theremin—all in this week’s Rumpus Books coverage.
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The Voice of Secondary Trauma
In his review of Bilal Tanweer’s The Scatter Here is Too Great, Jess Row writes about the trauma that’s influenced so many of Pakistan’s novelists: Pakistan is a country where the fact of suffering is indeed irrefutable, whether we’re speaking…
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The Rumpus Interview with Jess Row
“It’s really a liability in contemporary American fiction that many of us are taught to avoid political or intellectual matters in our work. It’s a real weakness in the way that fiction is taught in this country.”
