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Jason Guriel

Jason Guriel’s verse novel, Forgotten Work, is forthcoming in 2020. His writing has appeared in Slate, The Atlantic, ELLE, Poetry, and elsewhere.
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COVID-19 / June 2020 / Poetry

COVID-19 Couplets

May 23, 2020 - by Jason Guriel

On daily walks, we cut the neighbours swaths / Of space

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Arts & Culture

Are Prose Poets Trolling Us?

September 17, 2019July 27, 2020 - by Jason Guriel

In a new anthology, everything is a poem. And nothing is

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Poetry

Forgotten Work

September 13, 2018November 13, 2019 - by Jason Guriel

There also was an obit for Oasis; The aging rockers had fused and perished, faces Picassoed, mop tops mixed

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Books

Canada’s Cantankerous Aardvark

December 25, 2017September 11, 2020 - by Jason Guriel

Cerebus, which turns forty this month, is one of the funniest, most innovative, and most offensive comics ever made

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Arts & Culture

The Case Against Reading Everything

December 13, 2017January 6, 2020 - by Jason Guriel

Writing instructors preach exposure to different voices and styles. They are wrong

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Arts & Culture

Carly Rae Jepsen Hasn’t Earned Your Scholarly Scrutiny

July 27, 2017April 5, 2020 - by Jason Guriel

Contemporary culture writers warp their subjects out of proportion by applying more gravitas than is warranted by the source material

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Books

What Happens When Authors Are Afraid to Stand Alone

May 9, 2017November 11, 2019 - by Jason Guriel

Writing as an individual pursuit has been replaced by “community”—and literature is the worse for it

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Media

Culture Wars

December 16, 2016August 14, 2020 - by Jason Guriel

Critics enabled the rise of fanboy culture. Only they can stop it

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Arts & Culture

Making Art in the Face of Trump

December 6, 2016August 18, 2020 - by Jason Guriel

Bold claims for the utility of political writing aren’t enough

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Arts & Culture

The Art of the Blurb

November 8, 2016August 18, 2020 - by Jason Guriel

I totally judge books by their blurbs—and you should, too

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