Jessica Ferri
Writer at Freelance
Book critic @latimes and @washingtonpost & owner @wombhousebooks. Author of Silent Cities New York and Silent Cities San Francisco.
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2 months ago |
latimes.com | Jessica Ferri
About a dozen pages into Michelle de Kretser’s new novel, “Theory & Practice,” she runs into the granite wall between truth and fiction. The narrative involves a young man dreaming of a woman. He has an “idea of a female musician, which is based on an engraving of the young Clara Schumann that hangs in the institution where his mother is housed,” but his idealized concept suddenly falls away.
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2 months ago |
yahoo.com | Jessica Ferri
About a dozen pages into Michelle de Kretser's new novel, “Theory & Practice,” she runs into the granite wall between truth and fiction. The narrative involves a young man dreaming of a woman. He has an “idea of a female musician, which is based on an engraving of the young Clara Schumann that hangs in the institution where his mother is housed,” but his idealized concept suddenly falls away.
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Jan 10, 2025 |
latimes.com | Jessica Ferri
It’s telling that Manuel Betancourt’s new book, “Hello Stranger: Musings on Modern Intimacies,” grounded in queer theory and abolition, takes its title from a line from the 2004 film “Closer,” about two messed-up straight couples. The choice of “Closer,” “a bruising piece about the rotting roteness of long-term intimacy,” as Betancourt puts it, is an experience familiar to many. 2024 was a year in which marriage, specifically heterosexual marriage, was taken to task.
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Dec 9, 2024 |
latimes.com | Mark Athitakis |Jessica Ferri |Bethanne Patrick
If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. In keeping with our annual tradition, we asked three of our critics for their favorite books of the last year. Between them, they chose 15 books, three of them reissues, and the majority fiction.
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Sep 2, 2024 |
latimes.com | Mark Athitakis |Lorraine Berry |Jessica Ferri |Bethanne Patrick |Paula Woods
Fall Preview Books 30 Most Anticipated Books of Fall If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Peak publishing season is upon us. This fall offers a bounty of books from prominent authors Danzy Senna, Rachel Kushner, Sally Rooney, Michael Connelly and Richard Price and newcomers Kay Chronister and Weike Wang.
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