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Jason Porter

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Jason Porter was born in Jackson, Michigan, in 1972, and grew up in nearby Ann Arbor. After a brief career as an online news editor (Yahoo! News and The New York Times) and a less brief non-career as a rock musician, Jason completed an MFA in Fiction at Hunter College. Now he writes fiction, mostly in odd shapes and sizes. His first novel, Why Are You So Sad?, was shortlisted for the Paris Literary Prize, and is being published by Plume. He lives in Brooklyn, with his girlfriend and their two dogs.

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A starred review for Why Are You So Sad? from Publisher's Weekly!
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"The book toggles deftly between its narrator's bummer of a worldview and his riotous, biting snark, peppered throughout with dashes of surprisingly transcendent philosophies. Porter's is a smart, compact debut that, despite sometimes hitting a nerve when it's aiming for the funny bone, resonat Read more of this blog post »

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	Why Are You So Sad? 3.35 avg rating — 578 ratings — published 2014 — 12 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
	We Were Down (excerpted from Why Are You So Sad?) (Electric Literature's Recommended Reading Book 84) by Jason Porter (Goodreads Author), Haimah Marcus (Introduction) 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013	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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