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Jessica McEntee

Jessica McEntee

Jessica Noyes McEntee teaches fiction at Westport Writers’ Workshop in Connecticut and works in marketing at Pequot Library. She was appointed as Westport's Poet Laureate in July 2022. Her debut poetry chapbook was published by Finishing Line Press in June of 2019. Previously, she worked in the editorial department at Wiley. She graduated from Amherst College.

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Jessica McEntee

Fiction

“Second Place” is a Captivating Narrative Unlike Anything Else

Rachel Cusk earned critical renown with her “Outline” series, three books that strip bare traditional narrative formats and train the spotlight on minor characters, eliding the narrator’s identity and making her a mere conduit. Cusk’s newest novel, Second Place (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), performs an about-face from this approach, sinking…
Jessica McEntee
May 7, 2021
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N.L. Holmes on Royal Egyptian Society and the Future of Archaeology

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/bird-in-a-snare.jpg While most people’s impression of ancient Egypt is usually limited to spring holiday viewings of The Ten Commandments or grade-school museum field trips, our fascination endures. Anyone who has ever wondered about what life was like among the pharaohs will delight in the Lord Hani Mysteries by N.L. Holmes.…
Jessica McEntee
November 10, 2020
Fiction

Whitehead’s Latest Captures Jim Crow-Era Florida

Following Colson Whitehead's critically acclaimed 2016 novel The Underground Railroad, expectations were set very high for the author's next work. Fortunately, Whitehead delivers in his searing new novel, The Nickel Boys (Doubleday). Set during the advent of the Civil Rights movement, The Nickel Boys centers on Elwood Curtis, an up-and-coming African…
Jessica McEntee
July 15, 2019

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