Jason Christian

Jul 2, 2024 | full-stop.net | Jason Christian

Nathan Knapp’s debut novel, Daybook, begins with a pithy epigraph from Emil Cioran: “A writer’s ‘sources’? His shames.” The quotation serves as a guiding ethos for the book, and perhaps a challenge to its author: just how much personal and cultural shame can Knapp mine, and what shape will it come out to be?

Mar 1, 2024 | letterboxd.com | Jason Christian

March Around the World 2024: 30 feature films from 30 different countries (one from Mexico), watched during March of 2024. The films are listed in the order that I watched them.

Mar 1, 2024 | full-stop.net | Jason Christian

[Malarkey Books; 2024]The question every restless idealist loathes: “When will you settle down?” Beneath these words is an implicit indictment of one’s perceived failures as measured against bourgeois imperatives—a stable career, an elegant home, a healthy marriage and well-adjusted kids. The narrator of LJ Pemberton’s debut novel Still Alive—a young woman who goes by V, short for Virginia—is routinely confronted with this icy question by her mother.

Jan 4, 2024 | kitsapsun.com | Jason Christian

Jason Christian, Central Kitsap Fire and RescueKitsap SunI want to start a conversation with our community about the service challenges we are facing at Central Kitsap Fire and Rescue. Our call volumes have increased 35 percent in the last five years. We responded to 11,062 calls in 2022, and 67 percent of those calls were for emergency medical services (EMS).

Jan 1, 2024 | podcasts.apple.com | Jason Christian |Anthony Ballas |Tim Jones

1 episode Cold War Cinema is a podcast about movies made during the first decade of the Cold War (post-WWII through the 1950s). Each episode focuses on one film and hosts (Jason, Anthony, and Tim) discuss the film's historical context and examine its themes related to anti-communist hysteria and other political issues at the time.