On episode four of our second season, we bring you a conversation with writer and professor Jason Tougaw.
In this episode, Jason Tougaw, author of The One You Get: Portrait of a Family Organism, and Professor of English and Creative Writing at Queens College, CUNY, talks with Resort founder Catherine LaSota about his journey from California to New York, the unexpected encounters that follow writing a memoir, and his approach to balancing a writing and academic life.
Jason Tougaw’s memoir The One You Get: Portrait of a Family Organism (Dzanc) is the winner of the Dzanc Nonfiction Prize. His book The Elusive Brain: Literary Experiments in The Age of Neuroscience(Yale University Press) was named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2018 by Choice magazine. He is also the author of Strange Cases: The Medical Case History and the British Novel (Routledge). He is also editor, with Nancy K. Miller, of Extremities: Trauma, Testimony, and Community(University of Illinois Press). His essays have appeared in OUT magazine, DV8, Largehearted Boy, Literary Hub, and Electric Literature. He writes a monthly column for Psychology Today.
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