Jayson Greene

Jayson Greene (born 1981/1982)^[1] is an American author, music critic and editor. He has served as a senior editor of online music magazine Pitchfork^[1] and is the author of Once More We Saw Stars a memoir about the death of his two-year-old daughter in 2015.^[2] The book, released May 14, 2019^[3] received a starred review from Publishers Weekly^[4] and was named to lists of most-anticipated books of 2019 by Entertainment Weekly, the Observer, New York magazine's Vulture, Elle, Oprah Magazine and Bustle.^{[5][6][7][8][9][10]}

Reviewing Once More We Saw Stars for The New York Times, Alex Witchel praised the book as "a revelation of lightness and agility. That [Greene] managed to keep his facility for language during a period where it often disappears is a miracle. He has created a narrative of grief and acceptance that is compulsively readable and never self-indulgent."^[11] Rolling Stone gave it four of five stars, noting that the story which "might be too bleak to face" instead is "an intensely moving, life-affirming story about a young couple moving through the darkest depths of grief together, making it up as they go along."^[12]

References

1. Maher, John (February 10, 2017). "Knopf to Publish Memoir of a Father's Loss". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
2. Chaban, Matt A. V.; Rojas, Rick (18 May 2015). "Girl, 2, Dies After Being Struck by Falling Piece of Windowsill in Manhattan". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
3. Cowdrey, Katherine (November 23, 2018). "Hodder buys bereaved father's 'moving' memoir". The Bookseller. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
4. "Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir". Publishers Weekly. January 16, 2019. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
5. Kelly, Hillary (January 7, 2019). "37 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2019". Vulture. New York Magazine. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
6. Canfield, David (December 20, 2018). "The 50 most anticipated books of 2019". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
7. Jarema, Kerri (April 4, 2019). "29 New Memoirs To Make Your Spring Reading Dreams Come True". Bustle. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
8. Tang, Estelle (11 March 2019). "The Best Books to Read This Spring". Elle. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
9. LeBlanc, Lauren (18 March 2019). "The 16 Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2019". Observer. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
10. Haber, Leigh; Hart, Michelle (21 March 2019). "Everyone's Talking About These Books – Here's Why". Oprah Magazine. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
11. Witchel, Alex (13 May 2019). "Grieving the Death of a Child in 'Once More We Saw Stars' (Published 2019)". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
12. Sheffield, Rob (2019-05-15). "Book Review: Jayson Greene's 'Once More We Saw Stars' is a Staggering Work of Quiet Heartbreak". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2020-12-18.

External links

• Excerpt from Once More We Saw Stars, Vulture, New York magazine, April 10, 2019