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In Other Lives Our Own, Jason Weiss's nimble prose links rich viewpoints with precise lyricism and meditative calm. In poignant narrative sketches, language, place, time, and experience combine into words with the power to bind existence to memory and thought. Snapshots of joy, loss, change, travel, pain, distance, foreignness, spirituality, and laughter interconnect in his artful reflections; in these moments, you can glimpse parts of your own story.

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Each time I receive a message from Jason Weiss, I tell myself I'm lucky. Each text from Jason is an opportunity to discover a subject, to delve deeper into a question and to open a door toward a here that is richer and more inspiring. Like a painter's picture or a sculptor's forms, he invites us into a landscape where the words structure a fertile manner of thinking. This gathering of texts is a window onto his way of being in the world. He helps us to live better. Ramuntcho Matta If the best poetry pulls at your stomach, music can be a perspective. In Other Lives Our Own, Jason Weiss's nimble prose links rich viewpoints with precise lyricism and meditative calm. In poignant narrative sketches, language, place, time, and experience combine into words with the power to bind existence to memory and thought. Snapshots of joy, loss, change, travel, pain, distance, foreignness, spirituality, and laughter interconnect in his artful reflections; in these moments, you can glimpse parts of your own story. Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, Decolonizing American Spanish: Eurocentrism and Foreignness in the Imperial Ecosystem

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Jason Weiss was born and raised at the Jersey shore, schooled in Berkeley, spent a decade in Paris, and has been living in Brooklyn for 30+ years, working as a writer, editor, and translator. His first book was Writing at Risk: Interviews in Paris with Uncommon Writers (1991), followed by books on Brion Gysin, Steve Lacy, Latin American writers in Paris, and the ESP-Disk' record label. He also published Cloud Therapy (2015), short nonfiction texts on swimming, and translated books by Luisa Futoransky, Marcel Cohen, and Silvina Ocampo. With Iris Cushing, he co-edited a big book of selected poems by the late California poet Mary Norbert Korte (1934-2022), Jumping into the American River (2023). Spuyten Duyvil previously published another book of short nonfiction texts, Listenings (2023).

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