Jack Livings is author of The Dog, which was awarded the PEN / Robert W. Bingham Prize, the Rome Prize for Literature, and was included on best book of the year lists by the Times Literary Supplement and The New York Times. His short stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories and have been awarded two Pushcart Prizes. His first novel is The Blizzard Party.
Jack Livings recommends
Paper Names (2023)
Susie Luo
"Paper Names is one of the most compelling evocations of the American dream I've ever read, an unwaveringly honest accounting of the costs of achieving that dream. Here you're in the hands of a supremely gifted storyteller who's unwinding a tale that is by turns tragic and redemptive, and always engrossing. I found the book impossible to put down, as much for its propulsive narrative as for its carefully observed portrait of the imperfect nature of love, and the fraught, untamable state of being human."
The Bobcat (2019)
Katherine Forbes Riley
"By turns raw, hallucinogenic, redemptive, and always deeply intelligent, it’s a novel of the moment and one that deserves a wide audience."
Anthologies containing stories by Jack Livings
The Best American Short Stories 2006 (2006)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Katrina Kenison and Ann Patchett
