Jason Guriel

Writer. Fan Mail: A Guide to What We Love, Loathe & Mourn, The Full-Moon Whaling Chronicles, On Browsing, Forgotten Work. @TheAtlantic @AirMailWeekly @thewalrus

[Jason Guriel @jasonguriel]

“Jason Guriel is one of the best poet-critics under 50… Unlike Vendler, Mr. Guriel is both stimulating and fun.”

A very cool Christmas gift: @micahmattix reviews my new book of essays, Fan Mail, in the Wall Street Journal. See below. @WSJ @VehiculePress

[Jason Guriel @jasonguriel]

@MattWelch Would also love a limited edition styrofoam Big Mac container

[Jason Guriel @jasonguriel]

https://t.co/p4IU1BnL3D

[Jason Guriel @jasonguriel]

We need more gatekeepers & fewer "bloggers, podcasters, pundits, influencers, webcam exhibitionists, self-taught historians, selfie-snappers, looks-maxxers, cat-picture-uploaders, definitely-informed-opinion-havers & do-their-own-researchers."

-Me, in @thewalrus. Link below.

[A.M. Juster (with Amazon's #1 #Canzoniere!) @amjuster]

Jason Guriel wants to replace the ideological gatekeeper with the literary gatekeeper:

https://t.co/zkaMkZ6qqA

(thx Micah)

[Jason Guriel @jasonguriel]

Bring back gatekeepers.

I wrote about these much-diminished (and sorely missed) figures for the @thewalrus summer reading issue.

[Ashis Basu 🇨🇦 ashis.bluesky.social @BasuAshis]

@jasonguriel @thewalrus Great piece Jason! Reading it now. I got my copy of the Walrus today.

[Jason Guriel @jasonguriel]

At a time when criticism (in print, on an actual page) seems to be on the decline, I’m looking forward to digging into Alex Boyd’s new book, which collects 25 years of essays and reviews (including a review of On Browsing)! @alexboydwriter

[The Walrus @thewalrus]

What if the problem with the internet isn’t that too many people have voices, but that too few people are willing to say no? Writer @jasonguriel makes the case for a now diminished—and often misunderstood—figure: the gatekeeper. https://t.co/SlrOMb2HqV

[Jason Guriel @jasonguriel]

With nods to @GreatDismal, @mcmoynihan, and Sylvia Plath: https://t.co/p4IU1BnL3D

[Jason Guriel @jasonguriel]

Bring back gatekeepers.

I wrote about these much-diminished (and sorely missed) figures for the @thewalrus summer reading issue.

[Jason Guriel @jasonguriel]

@meghan_daum "There were lots of promises to cancel subscriptions, the ultimate fighting words of educated elites." Perfect.

[Jason Guriel @jasonguriel]

@CaitlinPacific @jmasseypoet File under Dept. of Shamelessness, but this might interest: one of my novels written in rhyming couplets: https://t.co/LX8SJlQ22T

[Jason Guriel @jasonguriel]

@CaitlinPacific @davidaxelrod That would be a good title: The Deadly Middle: Selected Essays, by Caitlin Flanagan

[Jason Guriel @jasonguriel]

@sarahhepola The doc Room 237 is fun and spooky

[Jason Guriel @jasonguriel]

@BovyMaltz Looking forward!

[CDN Notes & Queries @CNandQ]

In this issue, we welcome new reviews editor Steven Beattie, along with a host of excellent writers to offer you dedicated readers more literary excellence you won't want to miss, including features on poetry, freelancing, the state of Canadian literature and culture, and more.

[Jason Guriel @jasonguriel]

Love this new Christian Wiman poem in the debut issue of @PorticoQtrly and esp love the simile: “some many-/angled insect like an inch/of barbed wire attached/to a gray shield-shaped plate”

[Jason Guriel @jasonguriel]

@amjuster @roberthilburn @gillianwelch And @realjimmywebb

[Jason Guriel @jasonguriel]

@itsdbouts Also ahem: https://t.co/LX8SJlQ22T

[Jason Guriel @jasonguriel]

@itsdbouts Ahem: https://t.co/ejp7aX61pD