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PRAISE
"Jackson writes with a keen attentiveness to the social contexts shaping the lives of his family, offering nuanced depictions that upend the stereotypes that often cage us in.”
—New York Times Book Review
“An expansive chronicle as much as his own personal story ... Survival Math is remarkably direct and poignant.”
—USA Today
“[A] vibrant memoir of race, violence, family, and manhood…Jackson recognizes there is too much for one conventional form, and his various storytelling methods imbue the book with an unpredictable dexterity.”
—Boston Globe
"In his nonfiction debut, award-winning novelist Mitchell S. Jackson explains what it’s like to grow up black in one of the whitest cities in the country: Portland, Ore."
—Time
★ “Jackson reclaims his history through an elegant memoir…one of rigorous self-examination, approaching his personal story with honesty and poetry…The result is an intimate portrayal of what makes us human…as much about a writer struggling to understand life’s jubilations, mistakes, and losses, as it is a chronicle of a black man’s place in America, appealing to fans of Kiese Laymon and Ta-Nehisi Coates.”
—Library Journal, STARRED review
★ “A potent book that revels in the author’s truthful experiences while maintaining the jagged-grain, keeping-it-a-100, natural storytelling that made The Residue Years a modern must-read.”
—Kirkus Reviews, STARRED review
★ “Stunning…Jackson plays out his life’s ‘revision’ against a backdrop of self- and social critique. Thanks to Jackson’s fresh voice, this powerful autobiography shines an important light on the generational problems of America’s oft-forgotten urban communities.”
—Publishers Weekly, STARRED review
FEATURED WRITING
Profile of Colson Whitehead for Time Magazine
Profile of Michael B. Jordan in Esquire
“Opportunity Cost” essay in Harpers
“High Pursuit” short story in VQR
“Oversoul” short story in Vice Magazine
“This is America” essay in The Guardian
“N-Words” essay on Authorsguild.com
“Dear Gordon” essay in Tinhouse magazine
NYTBR review of Casey Gerald’s There Will Be No Miracles Here
NYTBR review of Greg Pardlo’s Air Traffic
EVENTS
PRESS
Mitchell S. Jackson on Changing Paths / Amanpour&Co.
New York University Professor Mitchell Jackson talked about his book, Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family , in which he reflected on his family’s multi-generational experience with violence and economic inequality growing up in Portland, Oregon.
Whiting Award / Whiting Foundation
The Residue Years: From Prison to the Pen / Friday forum
Mitchell Jackson on ‘The Residue Years’ and His Own Story, Fictionalized / bibliostar.tv
Interview with Tavis Smiley / PBS.ORG
Interview / Other people podcast