Jefferson Long

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William Shakespeare, John Keats, Georg Trakl, Max Frisch, Albert Camus

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March 2026


Jefferson has spent much of his life in transit.

By train across India. By motorcycle through forgotten villages. On foot through forests, railway stations, cities, beaches, and places that no longer exist except in memory.

A photographer for most of his adult life, he writes the way photographers remember: through fragments, details, and images. A hotel room number. A wooden flute bought on a hot afternoon. The scent of a lost lover. A Sunday in November. A train heard in the distance.

His books are journeys through memory, where photographs, dreams, travel, love, and loss overlap until it becomes impossible to tell where one ends and another begins.

He writes not to explain the past, but to rescue what remains of it.

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Departure[s] by Julian Barnes
"Julian Barnes bids farewell, building on his essay collection "Levels of Life", in which he writes, among other things, about coming to terms with his wife’s death. “Departure(s)” deals with his own impending death, which, given his cancer diagnosis " Read more of this review »
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“Sometimes the memory of you is like a fading patch of sunlight between the trees in my garden.
I watch you sleeping until I realize you’re only in my thoughts.”
Jefferson Long, Going South: A Tragedy of Love and Self-Deception

“Sometimes the memory of you is like a fading patch of sunlight between the trees in my garden.
I watch you sleeping until I realize you’re only in my thoughts.”
Jefferson Long, Going South: A Tragedy of Love and Self-Deception

“And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.”
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“I barely knew I had skin before I met you.”
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Jefferson Long Evess wrote: "Hi Jefferson Long,

This sounds absolutely fascinating a dark Venetian noir with culinary thriller elements is right up my alley. I'd love to read and leave an honest review on Amazon.
If possible,..."


Hey, I think you might be referring to a different book 😊
Mine is a psychological novel about a teacher and a student, not a Venetian noir.

I’m currently not sharing PDFs, but if you’re interested, it’s available on Amazon.


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