Jayson Greene (born 1981 or 1982) [1] is an American author, music critic and editor. He has served as a senior editor of online music magazine Pitchfork [1] and is the author of Once More We Saw Stars a memoir about the death of his two-year-old daughter in 2015. [2] The book, released May 14, 2019, [3] received a starred review from Publishers Weekly [4] and was named to lists of most-anticipated books of 2019 by Entertainment Weekly, the Observer, New York magazine's Vulture, Elle, Oprah Magazine and Bustle. [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]
Reviewing Once More We Saw Stars for The New York Times, Alex Witchel praised the book as "a revelation of lightness and agility. That [Greene] managed to keep his facility for language during a period where it often disappears is a miracle. He has created a narrative of grief and acceptance that is compulsively readable and never self-indulgent." [11] Rolling Stone gave it four of five stars, noting that the story which "might be too bleak to face" instead is "an intensely moving, life-affirming story about a young couple moving through the darkest depths of grief together, making it up as they go along." [12]
Jayson Greene (born 1981 or 1982) [1] is an American author, music critic and editor. He has served as a senior editor of online music magazine Pitchfork [1] and is the author of Once More We Saw Stars a memoir about the death of his two-year-old daughter in 2015. [2] The book, released May 14, 2019, [3] received a starred review from Publishers Weekly [4] and was named to lists of most-anticipated books of 2019 by Entertainment Weekly, the Observer, New York magazine's Vulture, Elle, Oprah Magazine and Bustle. [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]
Reviewing Once More We Saw Stars for The New York Times, Alex Witchel praised the book as "a revelation of lightness and agility. That [Greene] managed to keep his facility for language during a period where it often disappears is a miracle. He has created a narrative of grief and acceptance that is compulsively readable and never self-indulgent." [11] Rolling Stone gave it four of five stars, noting that the story which "might be too bleak to face" instead is "an intensely moving, life-affirming story about a young couple moving through the darkest depths of grief together, making it up as they go along." [12]