Author Archives: Jesse Goolsby

Author Archives: Jesse Goolsby

New Creative Nonfiction Up at The Journal

My latest creative nonfiction piece “Vas Deferens, Bears & Jacob: Why I Listen to My Children Breathe” has been published by The Journal. This essay was first workshopped in Diane Roberts’s graduate essay class at Florida State University, and I’m indebted to Diane and the entire class for their smart feedback. This is my second piece in Ohio State’s great literary journal. “No Curves No Junk” was published a few years ago. I’m so grateful to the … Continued

Collections to Seek Out: Tell Everyone I Said Hi; Easy in the Islands; A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

A couple of absolute standout collections I’ve read in the past few weeks have just blown me away. The titles and some summaries from the books’ covers: Chad Simpson’s Tell Everyone I Said Hi (The John Simmons Award in Short Fiction) “Poignant, fresh, and convincing, the stories in Tell Everyone I Said Hi portray the emotionally complications lives of women who smell of hairspray and beer, landscapers who worry about their livers, and people who … Continued

The Southeast Review + Nonfiction

We’re always looking for great work at The Southeast Review. I serve as the Nonfiction Editor at the journal and we’ve had a wonderful time reading through the hundred of submissions over the past months–just some outstanding work from first-time submitters to established writers. Be sure to check out our current issue (awesome cover above) as well as our submission guidelines. We’d love to read your work.  

1961 New York Times Review of Catch-22

  Check out the New York Times’s 1961 review of Catch-22 HERE. Some great snippets: “Catch-22, by Joseph Heller, is not an entirely successful novel. It is not even a good novel. It is not even a good novel by conventional standards. But there can be no doubt that it is the strangest novel yet written about the United States Air Force in World War II. Wildly original, brilliantly comic, brutally gruesome, it is a … Continued

Consequence Mag & Words After War November Event (NYC)

Friday, November 14at 7:00pm – 10:00pm Adelphi University’s Manhattan Center, 75 Varick Street, New York, NY 10013 Hosted by Adelphi University’s English Department and Collaboration Project: A reception will follow the event, and books will be on sale courtesy of Word Bookstore. Moderated by Lea Carpenter. Panelists: Elliot Ackerman, Tony Schwalm, Bob Shacochis. For much of the past 50 years, the special operations and intelligence communities have operated largely in the shadows, a closed fraternity … Continued