Join us at Soho House Nashville for a reading with JESS ROW, author of THE NEW EARTH (forthcoming March 28, 2023).

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“In The New Earth Jess Row explodes the twentieth-century family saga from within—blows the roof off, so to speak, to let in politics, race, theory, and the narrative self-awareness that the form had seemed hellbent on ignoring. It’s a wild gamble, and the result is a glorious win. The New Earth opens a panoramic view from within the space of this family, out onto a whole world: ours.” - Jonathan Lethem

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Jess Row is the author of the novels The New Earth and Your Face in Mine, a collection of essays, White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination, and two collections of short stories, The Train to Lo Wu and Nobody Ever Gets Lost. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Tin House, Conjunctions, Ploughshares, Granta, n+1, and elsewhere, has been anthologized three times in The Best American Short Stories, and has won two Pushcart Prizes and a PEN/O. Henry Award. He has received a Guggenheim fellowship, an NEA fellowship in fiction, a Whiting Writers Award, and a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant. In 2007, he was named a “Best Young American Novelist” by Granta. His nonfiction and criticism appear often in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, Threepenny Review, and Boston Review, among other venues. He directs the undergraduate creative writing program in the Department of English at NYU and is an ordained senior dharma teacher in the Kwan Um School of Zen. He lives in New York City and Plainfield, Vermont.

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Author Photo Credit: Beowulf Sheehan // Jacket Artwork Credit: Ecco