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Jeremy Jackson

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Jeremy Jackson was raised in the Ozark borderlands of central Missouri on a small farm. He attended Vassar College, where he won the English Department Prize for Fiction. After college he earned his M.F.A. at the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop, where he studied under Frank Conroy, Marilynne Robinson, and James Alan McPherson. While in the Workshop, he was awarded a Teaching-Writing Fellowship.

Jeremy's first novel, Life at These Speeds, was published in 2002. It was a selection of the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers program, a Booklist Editor's Choice, and is currently being developed as a feature film. In 2004, Jeremy's second novel, In Summer, was a BookSense Recommended Book.

Jeremy has also written three cookbooks: The
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Life at These Speeds film released

Earlier this month, the feature film version of Life at These Speeds premiered. The film is titled 1 Mile to You, and it can be rented or bought from the standard online movie outlets. It is also being screened in selected cities.

My publisher is reissuing the paperback edition of Life at These Speeds to coincide with the film.

I should note that I cannot take any credit for the making of 1 Mile to Read more of this blog post »
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Life at These Speeds

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I Will Not Leave You Comfor...

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In Summer

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The Cornbread Book: A Love ...

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The Real Comeback

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“But the problem was that I had retreated so far into myself - shielding myself from the ghosts and memories of this place - that I had become reliant upon the comfort and rituals and plans.”
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