J.S. DeYoung, Author at Splice

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J.S. DeYoung

J.S. DeYoung is a writer based in Atlanta, Georgia. His fiction has appeared The Los Angeles Review, New Orleans Review, and Best American Mystery Stories, and he is the author of Waiting for the Miracle, published by The Cupboard Pamphlet in 2020. His reviews have appeared in a range of venues including Music and Literature, 3:AM Magazine, and Numéro Cinq.

A Perfectly Calibrated Instrument

J.S. DeYoung reviews Deb Olin Unferth’s Barn 8.

Something That Was Almost Nothing About Something That Was Almost Something

J.S. DeYoung reviews Jung Young Moon’s Seven Samurai Swept Away in a River (trans. Yewon Jung).

An Existential Thriller With Lots of Breast Milk

J.S. DeYoung reviews Helen Phillips’ The Need.

The Side Dishes, Part 2

J.S. DeYoung reviews Natalia Ginzburg’s Happiness, as Such (trans. Minna Zallman Proctor).

The Side Dishes, Part 1

J.S. DeYoung reviews Natalia Ginzburg’s The Dry Heart (trans. Frances Frenaye).

I Didn’t Want to Talk About Literature Before Having Sex

J.S. DeYoung reviews Lina Wolff’s The Polyglot Lovers (trans. Saskia Vogel).

Stamping Ducks

J.S. DeYoung reviews Sam Savage’s An Orphanage of Dreams.

An Indecipherable Design

J.S. DeYoung reviews Amparo Dávila’s The Houseguest (trans. Audrey Harris and Matthew Gleeson)

Of Mingling and Middles

J.S. DeYoung reviews Mathias Énard’s Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants (trans. Charlotte Mandell).

Uncomfortable Places

J.S. DeYoung reviews Christine Schutt’s Pure Hollywood.

Alejandro’s Adventures in Reading

J.S. DeYoung reviews Alejandro Zambra’s Not to Read (trans. Megan McDowell).