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Mitchell S. Jackson

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Portland, Oregon, The United States

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Mitchell S. Jackson’s debut novel The Residue Years received wide critical praise. Jackson is the winner of a Whiting Award. His novel also won The Ernest J. Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence and was a finalist for The Center for Fiction Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, the PEN / Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction, and the Hurston / Wright Legacy Award. Jackson’s honors include fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the Ford Foundation, PEN America, TED, NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts), and The Center for Fiction. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Paris Review, The Guardian, Tin House, and elsewhere. His nonfiction book Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family is forthcoming from Scribner. Ja ...more

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	The Residue Years 3.89 avg rating — 1,369 ratings — published 2013 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family 3.77 avg rating — 1,295 ratings — published 2019 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Oversoul: Stories and Essays 4.65 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stories Can Save Us: America’s Best Narrative Journalists Explain How by Matt Tullis (Goodreads Author), Ben Montgomery (Goodreads Author) (primary_contributor), Audra D.S. Burch (primary_contributor) 4.65 avg rating — 20 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Church and court, it’s all the same—pews, a throne, a God, the accused.”
― Mitchell S. Jackson, The Residue Years

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“It's no use trying to fool ourselves.
Sometimes fooling ourselves is the only strength that counts.”
― Mitchell S. Jackson, The Residue Years

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“What my first mind says about Pam: She’s been through the fire and got a soft spot for folks that seen the flame.”
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“I make the road. I draw the map. Nothing just happens to me...I'm the one happening.”
― Denis Johnson, Already Dead: A California Gothic

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“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.”
― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

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