Jedediah Berry

Nov 19, 2024 | largeheartedboy.com | Jedediah Berry

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Jedediah Berry’s novelThe Naming Song is a marvel of post-apocalyptic worldbuilding. Erin Morgenstern wrote of the book:“The Naming Song is a wonder.

Nov 1, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Renee Gladman |M.L. Rio |Jedediah Berry |Robin Wall Kimmerer

Skip to content interviews We asked bookstores across the country about their favorite new titles Fall is the biggest season for literature, the most anticipated titles are released in September and awards season commences in November. To sort through this glorious deluge, we asked our trusted friends with the most impeccable literary taste for their recommendations for the buzziest new books, the ones they’re most excited for and can’t stop talking about. Here are what indie booksellers...

Sep 26, 2024 | lithub.com | Jedediah Berry

In the late 1980s, my friends and I knew something called Dungeons & Dragons existed—and we knew that it was for us. But no shop in our little upstate New York hometown carried the books, and the World Wide Web was still a few years off. We did have a set of the dice, so we worked with the scraps we’d gleaned from related books and video games, crafting rules and settings to help us tell the stories we wanted to tell. Article continues after advertisementIt was a messy process, but it worked.

Sep 3, 2024 | fantasyliterature.com | Bill Capossere |Jedediah Berry

The Naming Song by Jedediah BerryThe Naming Song (2024), by Jedediah Berry, is an ambitious work with a thoughtful and thought-provoking premise, and if (for me at least), it didn’t fully carry through on that ambition or premise, I’ve got to give credit to Berry for the reach. Certainly, given both that ambition and the level of writing here, I’ll look forward to what comes next from them (and also check out some prior work).

Jun 25, 2024 | libraryjournal.com | Jedediah Berry

. Sept. 2024. 384p. ISBN 9781250907981. $28.99. FANTASY COPY ISBN Apocalyptic disaster wiped away the world’s words. With everything unnamed, bonds fell apart, knowledge vanished, and identity disintegrated. Time passed unlabeled and unmeasured until someone rediscovered a word. From this, order sprouted, eventually coalescing into a train full of people charged with renaming all existence.