Джессе Балл: Американдық жазушы және ақын

American novelist and poet

Jesse Ball (born June 7, 1978) is an American novelist and poet. He has published novels, volumes of poetry, short stories, and drawings. His works are distinguished by the use of a spare style and have been compared to those of Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino.

Ball was born into a middle class, English speaking Irish Sicilian family in Port Jefferson, New York, on Long Island. Ball's father worked in Medicaid; his mother worked in libraries. His brother, Abram, was born with Down's syndrome and attended a school some distance from the place where they lived. Ball's 2014 book Silence Once Begun was reviewed by James Wood in The New Yorker in February 2014. In 2015, he was a finalist for the NYPL Young Lion Prize (also for Silence Once Begun). Later that year, he published A Cure for Suicide, which was long listed for the National Book Award. In 2017, Granta included him on their list of Best Young American Novelists. On June 30 of that year Ball published an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times suggesting that all American citizens be incarcerated periodically, as a civic duty. The article likens this incarceration to already existing jury duty and states that no one, not even sitting politicians, judges or military officers would be free from it. Ball's The Divers' Game was included on The New Yorker's Best Books of 2019 list. Staff writer Katy Waldman writes, "This dystopic fable imagines a society riven in two, with the upper class empowered to murder members of the lower class, for any reason." Ball is represented by Jim Rutman of Sterling Lord Literistic.

Samedi the Deafness. Novel. (New York: Vintage, 2007)
The Way Through Doors. Novel. (New York: Vintage, 2009)
The Curfew. Novel. (New York: Vintage, 2011)
Silence Once Begun. Novel. (New York: Pantheon, 2014)
A Cure for Suicide. Novel. (New York: Pantheon, 2015)
How to Set a Fire and Why. Novel. (New York: Pantheon, 2016)
Census. Novel. (New York: Ecco, 2018)
The Divers' Game. Novel. (New York: Ecco, 2019)
The Children VI Novel. (Buenos Aires: Editorial Sigilo 2022)

Vera & Linus. Stories. With Thórdís Björnsdóttir. (Reykjavík: Nyhil, 2006)
Parables & Lies. Prose. (Lincoln, NE: The Cupboard Pamphlet, 2007). Also included in The Village on Horseback: Prose and Verse, 2003 2008. Pieter Emily. Novella serialized in Guernica Magazine (2009). Also included in The Village on Horseback: Prose and Verse, 2003 2008. The Lesson. Novella. (New York: Vintage, 2016)
Deaths of Henry King. Stories. With Brian Evenson, Lilli Carré. (New York: Uncivilized, 2017)

Notes on My Dunce Cap. Nonfiction. (Brooklyn: Pioneer Works Press, 2016)
Sleep, Death's Brother. Nonfiction. (Brooklyn: Pioneer Works Press, 2017)

Autoportrait. Memoir. (Catapult, 2022)

Og svo kom nóttin, Drawings. With Thórdís Björnsdóttir. (Reykjavík: Nyhil, 2006)