Daniel Allen Cox
@danielallencox.bsky.social
I FELT THE END BEFORE IT CAME. ⭐ in PW. "...language for others who might still be searching for the right thing to say." —WaPo
Essays in The Guardian, Lit Hub, Electric Lit, The Malahat Review, Best Canadian Essays. Queer. He/him
danielallencox.net
Essays in The Guardian, Lit Hub, Electric Lit, The Malahat Review, Best Canadian Essays. Queer. He/him
danielallencox.net
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I'm so floored by this gorgeous and generous review of my book in The Brooklyn Rail by @danielallencox.bsky.social: "[I]t is impossible to prepare for the way that Larson describes, in this vivid and cinematic memoir debut, the summer that defined his life." 🏳️🌈
Richard Scott Larson’s The Long Hallway
When Richard Scott Larson was twelve going on thirteen, he started having a recurring nightmare of travelling a hallway full of dangerous, distorted characters toward a door slightly ajar, with someon...
brooklynrail.org
April 3, 2024 at 9:40 PM
I'm so floored by this gorgeous and generous review of my book in The Brooklyn Rail by @danielallencox.bsky.social: "[I]t is impossible to prepare for the way that Larson describes, in this vivid and cinematic memoir debut, the summer that defined his life." 🏳️🌈
Didn't see this coming. I Felt the End Before It Came is a PW Best Book of the Year. 😭
"There’s a live-wire intensity running through Cox's prose that makes this easy to read and difficult to forget."
Happy to be here with so many writers I admire. Thank you, Publishers Weekly!
"There’s a live-wire intensity running through Cox's prose that makes this easy to read and difficult to forget."
Happy to be here with so many writers I admire. Thank you, Publishers Weekly!
October 31, 2023 at 3:48 PM
Didn't see this coming. I Felt the End Before It Came is a PW Best Book of the Year. 😭
"There’s a live-wire intensity running through Cox's prose that makes this easy to read and difficult to forget."
Happy to be here with so many writers I admire. Thank you, Publishers Weekly!
"There’s a live-wire intensity running through Cox's prose that makes this easy to read and difficult to forget."
Happy to be here with so many writers I admire. Thank you, Publishers Weekly!
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My latest book review is up at Plenitude Magazine of Daniel Allen Cox's I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah’s Witness.
Particularly proud of the blood, sweat, tears-and life research-that went into this one.
plenitudemagazine.ca/hope-and-hid...
Particularly proud of the blood, sweat, tears-and life research-that went into this one.
plenitudemagazine.ca/hope-and-hid...
October 1, 2023 at 6:44 PM
My latest book review is up at Plenitude Magazine of Daniel Allen Cox's I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah’s Witness.
Particularly proud of the blood, sweat, tears-and life research-that went into this one.
plenitudemagazine.ca/hope-and-hid...
Particularly proud of the blood, sweat, tears-and life research-that went into this one.
plenitudemagazine.ca/hope-and-hid...
A mini documentary about I Felt the End Before It Came is now premiering at the Winnipeg International Writers Festival. 🥳
There's some behind the scenes of the five wild years it took to write the book, and of course, some Montreal weirdness:
thinairfestival.ca/user/1159/
There's some behind the scenes of the five wild years it took to write the book, and of course, some Montreal weirdness:
thinairfestival.ca/user/1159/
September 23, 2023 at 1:51 PM
A mini documentary about I Felt the End Before It Came is now premiering at the Winnipeg International Writers Festival. 🥳
There's some behind the scenes of the five wild years it took to write the book, and of course, some Montreal weirdness:
thinairfestival.ca/user/1159/
There's some behind the scenes of the five wild years it took to write the book, and of course, some Montreal weirdness:
thinairfestival.ca/user/1159/
Can't wait to take this book on the road again!
August 29, 2023 at 1:56 PM
Can't wait to take this book on the road again!
Marquette, Michigan's daily newspaper runs reviews of new arrivals at the local public library, and this one is sending me 😳
My book is really getting out there.
My book is really getting out there.
August 26, 2023 at 3:41 PM
Marquette, Michigan's daily newspaper runs reviews of new arrivals at the local public library, and this one is sending me 😳
My book is really getting out there.
My book is really getting out there.
For the Globe and Mail, I wrote about stuttering, almost saying no to narrating my audiobook, and getting rid of ideas of perfection that have nothing to do with us.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/article-author-daniel-allen-cox-discards-perfection-in-narrating-his-audiobook/
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/article-author-daniel-allen-cox-discards-perfection-in-narrating-his-audiobook/
Author Daniel Allen Cox discards perfection in narrating his audiobook
Narrating the memoir I Felt The End Before It Came taught Cox more about speech and voice than the writer had learned in years
www.theglobeandmail.com
August 4, 2023 at 5:14 PM
For the Globe and Mail, I wrote about stuttering, almost saying no to narrating my audiobook, and getting rid of ideas of perfection that have nothing to do with us.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/article-author-daniel-allen-cox-discards-perfection-in-narrating-his-audiobook/
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/article-author-daniel-allen-cox-discards-perfection-in-narrating-his-audiobook/
Mark and I recently realized that the first concert we went to together was Sinéad O'Connor's free outdoor show in Montreal in the summer of 1997— eight years before we met. Of course. Here's Mark in Dublin in 2019.
RIP, Sinéad. Today we remember and feel your power.
<3 <3 <3
RIP, Sinéad. Today we remember and feel your power.
<3 <3 <3
July 26, 2023 at 8:26 PM
Mark and I recently realized that the first concert we went to together was Sinéad O'Connor's free outdoor show in Montreal in the summer of 1997— eight years before we met. Of course. Here's Mark in Dublin in 2019.
RIP, Sinéad. Today we remember and feel your power.
<3 <3 <3
RIP, Sinéad. Today we remember and feel your power.
<3 <3 <3
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come conjure lols with me in this two-day workshop for @shipmanagency.bsky.social august 8 & 15! 🤡🤡🤡
sign up here: https://www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/writing-workshop-a-laughing-matter-using-humor-in-memoir-and-essay-with-greg-mania
sign up here: https://www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/writing-workshop-a-laughing-matter-using-humor-in-memoir-and-essay-with-greg-mania
July 18, 2023 at 4:59 PM
come conjure lols with me in this two-day workshop for @shipmanagency.bsky.social august 8 & 15! 🤡🤡🤡
sign up here: https://www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/writing-workshop-a-laughing-matter-using-humor-in-memoir-and-essay-with-greg-mania
sign up here: https://www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/writing-workshop-a-laughing-matter-using-humor-in-memoir-and-essay-with-greg-mania
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Thank you. There’s a fantasy of AI we get from science fiction that is not this AI but people are primed to think it is, and companies are exploiting that misimpression.
This, from @alexanderchee.bsky.social, gets right to the heart of it. So much coverage has been focused on “could AI write a novel?” and so little on… why? Has any reader (or aspiring writer) ever walked into a bookstore or library and thought man, it’d be great if we could automate these things?
July 18, 2023 at 5:51 PM
Thank you. There’s a fantasy of AI we get from science fiction that is not this AI but people are primed to think it is, and companies are exploiting that misimpression.
Some news: we're making a mini-documentary about my book, to premiere at a literary festival this fall. 😭
We broke through a fence to get this outtake, which is fitting —I can't separate my life from le Stade.
We broke through a fence to get this outtake, which is fitting —I can't separate my life from le Stade.
July 18, 2023 at 4:46 PM
Some news: we're making a mini-documentary about my book, to premiere at a literary festival this fall. 😭
We broke through a fence to get this outtake, which is fitting —I can't separate my life from le Stade.
We broke through a fence to get this outtake, which is fitting —I can't separate my life from le Stade.
What a thing to wake up to, in Montreal Review of Books:
"A captivating, richly layered text that dismantles any reductive ideas readers may hold about indoctrination, departures, comings-out, and the practice of memoir-writing itself."
😭 😭
"A captivating, richly layered text that dismantles any reductive ideas readers may hold about indoctrination, departures, comings-out, and the practice of memoir-writing itself."
😭 😭
July 12, 2023 at 3:55 PM
What a thing to wake up to, in Montreal Review of Books:
"A captivating, richly layered text that dismantles any reductive ideas readers may hold about indoctrination, departures, comings-out, and the practice of memoir-writing itself."
😭 😭
"A captivating, richly layered text that dismantles any reductive ideas readers may hold about indoctrination, departures, comings-out, and the practice of memoir-writing itself."
😭 😭