Jared Yates Sexton Explained

Jared Yates Sexton
Birth Date:October 7, 1981
Alma Mater:Indiana State University,
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
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Jared Yates Sexton (born October 7, 1981) is an American author and political commentator from Linton, Indiana. He was an associate professor in the Department of Writing and Linguistics at Georgia Southern University.

Early life

Sexton grew up in southern Indiana. He studied English and Creative Writing at Indiana State University, and later received his MFA in Creative Writing from Southern Illinois University in 2008.

Career

Sexton previously taught Creative Writing at Ball State before accepting a position at Georgia Southern University, where he was a tenured Associate Professor of Creative Writing.[1]

Sexton is the author of three short story collections: An End to All Things (Atticus Books), The Hook and the Haymaker (Split Lip Press), and I Am the Oil of the Engine of the World (Split Lip Press), as well as a crime novel, Bring me the Head of Yorkie Goodman (New Pulp Press), written under the pseudonym Rowdy Yates.

His work has been published in Time Magazine[2],The New York Times, The New Republic, Salon, Paste, Southern Humanities Review, PANK, and in Hobart.

Political journalism

In April 2015, Sexton started covering the 2016 U.S. presidential election, attending multiple rallies for both major candidates and writing regular articles for Atticus Review[3] [4] in his column Atticus on the Trail.[5] He covered the Charleston shooting[6] and trail of church burnings in the South.[7] He has written for Time Magazine,New York Times, Salon and the New Republic.[8]

In the summer of 2016, Sexton went to another Trump rally in South Carolina, and reported on the behavior he observed there. His live tweets of the event soon went viral[9] and garnered him national attention,[10] which included frequent death threats.[11] He later wrote about the experience[12] and became a regular contributor to The New Republic and The New York Times.[13]

In December 2016, Sexton was a guest political commentator[14] on The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC, as well as on various radio programs, including KCRW.[15]

Selected works

Books

Articles

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Directory Writing and Linguistics Georgia Southern University. class.georgiasouthern.edu. en. 2017-03-21.
  2. Web site: Sexton . Jared Yates . Christian Nationalism's Popularity Should Be a Wake Up Call . Time . 16 March 2023 . en . 28 January 2023.
  3. News: "It gets to you after a while because how couldn't it?" Barrelhousing with Presidential Campaign Correspondent and Writer Jared Yates Sexton. Barrelhouse. 2017-03-24. en-US.
  4. News: Not His First Rodeo: The Former Governor of Maryland . 2015-06-12. Atticus Review. 2017-03-21. en-US.
  5. Web site: Atticus On The Trail Archives . Atticus Review. en-US. 2017-03-21.
  6. News: Atticus on the Trail: Notes on an American Tragedy - Atticus Review. 2015-06-22. Atticus Review. 2017-03-21. en-US.
  7. News: A Pilgrimage to America's Burnt Churches - Atticus Review. 2015-07-13. Atticus Review. 2017-03-21. en-US.
  8. Web site: Q&A: Jared Yates Sexton on Donald Trump Jr.’s tweets . 2022-03-10 . Columbia Journalism Review . en.
  9. News: Trump's Troubles Inspire Epic Schadenfreude. 2016-06-21. Bloomberg.com. 2017-03-24.
  10. News: One man just live-tweeted the absolute insanity at Trump's latest rally. Mother Jones. 2017-03-21. en.
  11. I Told the Truth About a Donald Trump Rally. Then the Trolls Threatened My Life.. 2016-06-22. New Republic. 2017-03-21.
  12. American Horror Story. 2016-06-15. New Republic. 2017-03-21.
  13. News: Is the Trump Campaign Just a Giant Safe Space for the Right?. Sexton. Jared Yates. 2016-07-01. The New York Times. 2017-03-21. 0362-4331.
  14. News: Trump vs. Obama: The theoretical campaign. MSNBC. 2017-03-22.
  15. News: Jared Yates Sexton. KCRW. 2017-03-24. en.
  16. Book: Sexton, Jared Yates. An End to All Things. 2012-01-01. Atticus Books. 9780984040513. en.
  17. Book: Yates, Rowdy. Bring Me the Head of Yorkie Goodman. 2015-02-19. New Pulp Press. 9780692387566. en.
  18. Book: Sexton, Jared Yates. The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore. 2017-09-12. COUNTERPOINT. 9781619029569. en.
  19. Web site: Morlock . Blake . 2017-10-20 . Los Angeles Review of Books . 2022-03-03 . Los Angeles Review of Books . en.
  20. News: Cannariato . Nicholas . 2019-05-10 . 'The Man They Wanted Me To Be' Puts An Individual Experience In Broader Context . en . NPR . 2022-03-03.
  21. Web site: Rollins . Henry . 2019-06-20 . Review: Men are expected to be ‘strong silent types’ — and it’s breaking them, says Henry Rollins . 2022-03-03 . Los Angeles Times . en-US.
  22. Web site: Welsh . Paige . 2020-09-27 . Los Angeles Review of Books . 2022-03-03 . Los Angeles Review of Books . en.
  23. Web site: Beres . Derek . 16 Sep 2020 . Is this the end of the myth of American exceptionalism? . 2022-03-03 . Big Think . en-US.
  24. Web site: The Midnight Kingdom by Jared Yates Sexton: 9780593185230 PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books . 2023-01-10 . PenguinRandomhouse.com . en-US.
  25. Web site: Jared Yates Sexton: Midnight in America? Why the Coming Crisis in the Republic . 2023-01-10 . chartable.com.
  26. MeidasTouch/Five-Minute News/The Weekend Show
  27. News: Donald Trump's Toxic Masculinity. Sexton. Jared Yates. 2016-10-13. The New York Times. 2017-03-21. 0362-4331.
  28. Web site: Hillbilly sellout: The politics of J. D. Vance's "Hillbilly Elegy" are already being used to gut the working poor. Sexton. Jared Yates. Salon. 2017-03-21.

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