An Interview with Jason Ockert
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Winter 2015
Publication Title
Wraparound South
Abstract
Well before his first collection was published, Jason Ockert had already seen his work printed in some of the best literary magazines of our time: Oxford American, McSweeney’s, the Iowa Review, and other publications that have paved the way for so many of our literary greats. It was therefore no real surprise that Ockert’s Rabbit Punches, which was lauded by critics as “riotously funny,” “quirky, unsettling, and full of unexpected turns,” would soon see a worthy follow up in Neighbors of Nothing, a story collection that Junot Diaz described as “beautiful, searching and generous,” and which earned the author a Shirley Jackson Fiction Award nomination. Now with Wasp Box, a novel forthcoming with Panhandler Books in Spring 2015, we are treated to a high-octane version of the witty, heartbreaking, and slightly absurd themes that earned Ockert his early reputation as “a writer to be watched.”
Recommended Citation
Valeri, Laura E..
2015.
"An Interview with Jason Ockert."
Wraparound South.
source: http://wraparoundsouth.org/winter-2015/interviews/interview-with-jason-ockert/
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/writing-linguistics-facpubs/196
