RECENT WRITING & Media
WRITING & DESIRE! Available this JUNE 2023! https://upittpress.org/books/9780822947776/
DEAR QUEER SELF is now available as an AUDIOBOOK! https://www.audible.com/pd/Dear-Queer-Self-Audiobook/B0B8P5LK16
TWO new books about to drop — stay tuned for more info!
A HOST of upcoming events across the country — SoCal, NOLA, NYC! Check it out under EVENTS: https://popularpublicity.com/current-projects/jonathan-alexander/.
A short article about pasts, memories, intimacies, queer & otherwise, available, now. on the GAY & LESBIAN REVIEW website.
DEAR QUEER SELF — coming in March! Read all about it here.
The UCI Medical Humanities Center presents Works-in-Progress Series: STROKE BOOK: The Queer Story of a Blindspot, by Jonathan Alexander — February 17, 2021 from 4-5 Pacific. RSVP here.
NEW PODCAST! We Are UCI, on redefining success for the 21st century: http://weareuci.uci.edu/podcast/
So pleased to introduce a new section of LARB called WRITING SEX, in which I host short interviews with major writers pushing the boundaries of the representation of sex and sexuality. Check it out, starting with my interview with Andrea Lawlor! https://lareviewofbooks.org/av/writing-sex-andrea-lawlor/
AIDS, COVID-19 and Art: Reflections on Pandemics — part of COVID-19: The Humanities Respond.
NEW! BLARB post on viewing queer art at a time of social distancing.
NEW! A review of Nayland Blake’s retrospective at the LA Institute for Contemporary Art.
Interview with Kit Williamson, creator of EASTSIDERS.
Nico Tortorella and Millennial Fluidity: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/on-millennial-fluidity-or-a-second-open-love-letter-to-nico-tortorella/
BURNING TIME, poetry and art — see the full exhibit at the UCI Student Center Viewpoint Gallery, now through May 23. For more information: http://illuminations.uci.edu/events/2019_5_7_Burning_Time_Exhibit.html
A. W. Strouse and I will be reading from our work at the BUREAU OF GENERAL SERVICES—QUEER DIVISION in NYC this coming April 10! Check it out: http://bgsqd.com/event/on-sabbatical/.
Read my review of Laurie Halse Anderson’s verse memoir, SHOUT, at LARB.
An article about Unruly Rhetorics, the collection on social protest, co-edited with Susan C. Jarratt and Nancy Welch.
Read “Being Cruised” and an article on Brian Jordan Alvarez, “Going for Gold,” recent work published in the LARB!
BURNING TIME, an exhibition and reading at the 1888 Center in Orange — Oct. 2, 2018, 6.30. Part of the LA LAMBDA LIT FESTIVAL!
Creep is a Lammy finalist! Read all about it here:
Hear Jonathan discuss his book, Creep: A Life, a Theory, an Apology on the LARB Radio Hour.
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Jonathan Alexander is a writer, literacy scholar, and cultural critic. He is Chancellor's Professor of English and Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. He is also the YA editor and a frequent contributor for the Los Angeles Review of Books.