MORE UPCOMING EVENTS!!!

Next week I’m on a mini-book tour, with a stop in New Orleans and then New York! Join me in NOLA at Frenchman’s Art & Books on Tuesday, June 14 for a reading and signing at 6:30pm. For more info, see: https://frenchmenartandbooks.com

Then I’ll be in NYC at The Bureau of General Services, Queer Division for a reading and signing with the amazing PAMELA SNEED! Thursday, June 16 at 7pm. For more info, see: https://bgsqd.com/event/writing-our-own-queer-histories-jonathan-alexander-pamela-sneed/

STROKE BOOK is OUT!!!

SO excited to have Stroke Book: The Diary of a Blindspot finally out in the world. Available everywhere, but please order from Fordham UP to support the press: https://www.fordhampress.com/9780823297665/stroke-book/.

Reviews:

Jonathan Alexander's Stroke Book is a fascinating auto-theoretical essay on illness and queer sexuality through the prism of his own health crisis that occurred after he had a minor stroke, causing visual impairment and anxiety about his own mortality. Alexander''s aphoristic style combines bits and pieces of phenomenological reflection with social and cultural analysis, creating a kaleidoscopic portal into the experience of stroke and its aftermath.---Lisa Diedrich, author of Indirect Action: Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS and the Course of Health Activism

Jonathan Alexander has given us an unexpected gift: an intimate performance of phenomenological writing that refuses the drive to process and package a life-altering experience of illness, embracing instead the daily imbrication of undependable vision, uncertain prognosis, and robust, resilient desire. Like the survival of its author in the wake of a sudden stroke, this book is a minor miracle.---Patrick Anderson, author of Autobiography of a Disease, and So Much Wasted