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Jared Yates Sexton

Jared Yates Sexton (born October 7, 1981) is an American author and political commentator from Linton, Indiana. He was an associate professor in the Department of Writing and Linguistics at Georgia Southern University.

Jared Yates Sexton
Sexton gives an author talk at Politics and Prose in 2023
Sexton gives an author talk at Politics and Prose in 2023
BornOctober 7, 1981
Alma materIndiana State University,
Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Early life

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Sexton grew up in southern Indiana. He studied English and Creative Writing at Indiana State University, and later received his MFA in Creative Writing from Southern Illinois University in 2008.

Career

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Sexton previously taught Creative Writing at Ball State before accepting a position at Georgia Southern University, where he was a tenured Associate Professor of Creative Writing, as recently as 2022.[1]

Sexton is the author of three short story collections: An End to All Things (Atticus Books), The Hook and the Haymaker (Split Lip Press), and I Am the Oil of the Engine of the World (Split Lip Press), as well as a crime novel, Bring me the Head of Yorkie Goodman (New Pulp Press), written under the pseudonym Rowdy Yates.

His work has been published in Time Magazine[2],The New York Times, The New Republic, Salon, Paste, Southern Humanities Review, PANK, and in Hobart.

Political journalism

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In April 2015, Sexton started covering the 2016 U.S. presidential election, attending multiple rallies for both major candidates and writing regular articles for Atticus Review[3][4] in his column Atticus on the Trail.[5] He covered the Charleston shooting[6] and trail of church burnings in the South.[7] He has written for Time Magazine,New York Times, Salon and the New Republic.[8]

In the summer of 2016, Sexton went to another Trump rally in South Carolina, and reported on the behavior he observed there. His live tweets of the event soon went viral[9] and garnered him national attention,[10] which included frequent death threats.[11] He later wrote about the experience[12] and became a regular contributor to The New Republic and The New York Times.[13]

In December 2016, Sexton was a guest political commentator[14] on The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC, as well as on various radio programs, including KCRW.[15]

Selected works

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Books

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  • An End to All Things: Stories[16] Atticus Books (December 21, 2012) ISBN 978-0692387566
  • Bring Me the Head of Yorkie Goodman[17] (as Rowdy Yates) New Pulp Press (February 19, 2015) ISBN 978-0692387566
  • The Hook and the Haymaker Split Lip Press (January 5, 2015) ISBN 978-0990903529
  • I Am the Oil of the Engine of the World Split Lip Press (February 23, 2016) ISBN 978-0990903567
  • The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters on Your Shore: A Story of American Rage[18] (September 12, 2017) ISBN 978-1619029569.[19]
  • The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making (May 7, 2019) ISBN 978-1640093850[20][21]
  • American Rule: How A Nation Conquered The World But Failed Its People Dutton/Penguin-Random House (September 15, 2020)ISBN 9781524745714[22][23]
  • The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis, Penguin-Random House (Jan 17, 2023)[24][25][26] ISBN 9780593185230

Articles

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  • "American Horror Story," The New Republic, June 2016.[12]
  • "Is the Trump Campaign Just a Giant Safe Space for the Right?", The New York Times, July 2016.[13]
  • "Donald Trump's Toxic Masculinity," The New York Times, October 2016.[27]
  • "Hillbilly sellout: the politics of J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy are already being used to gut the working poor," Salon, March 2016.[28]

References

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  1. ^ "Author Talk features Jared Yates Sexton March 2". 2022-02-21. Retrieved 2024-10-21.
  2. ^ Sexton, Jared Yates (28 January 2023). "Christian Nationalism's Popularity Should Be a Wake Up Call". Time. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
  3. ^ ""It gets to you after a while because how couldn't it?" Barrelhousing with Presidential Campaign Correspondent and Writer Jared Yates Sexton". Barrelhouse. Retrieved 2017-03-24.
  4. ^ "Not His First Rodeo: The Former Governor of Maryland". Atticus Review. 2015-06-12. Retrieved 2017-03-21.
  5. ^ "Atticus On The Trail Archives". Atticus Review. Retrieved 2017-03-21.
  6. ^ "Atticus on the Trail: Notes on an American Tragedy - Atticus Review". Atticus Review. 2015-06-22. Retrieved 2017-03-21.
  7. ^ "A Pilgrimage to America's Burnt Churches - Atticus Review". Atticus Review. 2015-07-13. Retrieved 2017-03-21.
  8. ^ "Q&A: Jared Yates Sexton on Donald Trump Jr.'s tweets". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 2022-03-10.
  9. ^ "Trump's Troubles Inspire Epic Schadenfreude". Bloomberg.com. 2016-06-21. Retrieved 2017-03-24.
  10. ^ "One man just live-tweeted the absolute insanity at Trump's latest rally". Mother Jones. Retrieved 2017-03-21.
  11. ^ "I Told the Truth About a Donald Trump Rally. Then the Trolls Threatened My Life". New Republic. 2016-06-22. Retrieved 2017-03-21.
  12. ^ a b "American Horror Story". New Republic. 2016-06-15. Retrieved 2017-03-21.
  13. ^ a b Sexton, Jared Yates (2016-07-01). "Is the Trump Campaign Just a Giant Safe Space for the Right?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-03-21.
  14. ^ "Trump vs. Obama: The theoretical campaign". MSNBC. Retrieved 2017-03-22.
  15. ^ "Jared Yates Sexton". KCRW. Retrieved 2017-03-24.
  16. ^ Sexton, Jared Yates (2012-01-01). An End to All Things. Atticus Books. ISBN 9780984040513.
  17. ^ Yates, Rowdy (2015-02-19). Bring Me the Head of Yorkie Goodman. New Pulp Press. ISBN 9780692387566.
  18. ^ Sexton, Jared Yates (2017-09-12). The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore. COUNTERPOINT. ISBN 9781619029569.
  19. ^ Morlock, Blake (2017-10-20). "Los Angeles Review of Books". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2022-03-03.
  20. ^ Cannariato, Nicholas (2019-05-10). "'The Man They Wanted Me To Be' Puts An Individual Experience In Broader Context". NPR. Retrieved 2022-03-03.
  21. ^ Rollins, Henry (2019-06-20). "Review: Men are expected to be 'strong silent types' — and it's breaking them, says Henry Rollins". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2022-03-03.
  22. ^ Welsh, Paige (2020-09-27). "Los Angeles Review of Books". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2022-03-03.
  23. ^ Beres, Derek (16 Sep 2020). "Is this the end of the myth of American exceptionalism?". Big Think. Retrieved 2022-03-03.
  24. ^ "The Midnight Kingdom by Jared Yates Sexton: 9780593185230 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2023-01-10.
  25. ^ "Jared Yates Sexton: Midnight in America? Why the Coming Crisis in the Republic". chartable.com. Retrieved 2023-01-10.
  26. ^ MeidasTouch/Five-Minute News/The Weekend Show Top Political Analyst WARNS of America’s Self-Destruction, retrieved 2023-01-10
  27. ^ Sexton, Jared Yates (2016-10-13). "Donald Trump's Toxic Masculinity". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-03-21.
  28. ^ Sexton, Jared Yates. "Hillbilly sellout: The politics of J. D. Vance's "Hillbilly Elegy" are already being used to gut the working poor". Salon. Retrieved 2017-03-21.
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