Jesse Ball (born June 7, 1978) is an American novelist and poet. He has published novels, volumes of poetry, short stories, and drawings. His works are distinguished by the use of a spare style and have been compared to those of Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino. Career. Ball’s reputation as a leading

Jesse Ball (1978-) Born in New York. The author of fourteen books, most recently, the novel How To Set a Fire and Why. His prizewinning works of absurdit

Jesse Ball’s “Census” is a profound parable about a man and son exploring the country.

Mar 06, 2018 · Jesse Ball’s new novel is about a man and his son, who has Down syndrome, and the people they meet traveling across the country.

Jesse Ball is the prizewinning author of numerous volumes of fiction and poetry. His work is a part of the tradition of Borges, Abe, Kafka, Walser, Kristof, Erpenbeck, Bernhard, Gogol and Schulz. He was born in 1978 in New York. He lives in Chicago and teaches at the college of the Art Institute of

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Mar 09, 2018 · Jesse Ball’s fiction always takes an unusual path. So it is for ‘Census,’ his aphoristic new novel, in which a dying man and his son with Down syndrome take stock of America, which shows itself in its reaction to them.

T wo very different literary impulses collide in Jesse Ball’s new novel: old-fashioned memoir and modernist fable.One might think they were incompatible, given their allegiances to the separate truths of experience and imagination, but it’s a testament to the skill of this talented writer (on the Granta best American novelists list in …

Mar 06, 2018 · Jesse Ball’s new novel isn’t a conventional road novel, but it’s one that will get right at your heart nonetheless.

Apr 20, 2018 · Jesse Ball Dupont Park, Jacksonville: See 5 reviews, articles, and 12 photos of Jesse Ball Dupont Park, ranked No.76 on TripAdvisor among 181 attractions in …