Jacob Silverman

Jacob Silverman is a Los Angeles–based writer and contributing online editor for VQR. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, the Christian Science Monitor, and Asian Geographic.

http://www.jacobsilverman.com/

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CRITICISM / Fall 2010

The Activist Novelist

By Jacob Silverman

In thirteen books of fiction and nonfiction, including the groundbreaking The Yellow Wind, an investigation into Palestinian life in the Occupied Territories that arguably predicted the First Intifada, the celebrated Israeli writer David...

ARTICLES

How to Market a Novel

By Jacob Silverman

Indie publisher Melville House does it right. Their marketing of Hans Fallada’s Every Man Dies Alone is a prime example.

ESSAYS

Robert Walser, Thief

By Jacob Silverman

Like all good writers, he was an inveterate borrower, at times wearing his influences openly.

ESSAYS

The Many Deaths of Robert Walser

By Jacob Silverman

The iconic death photo of Robert Walser has been artistically reinterpreted many times.

Summer 2010

A Gentle and Angry Instrument: Robert Walser’s Short Fiction

By Jacob Silverman

ESSAYS

What Good are Authors’ Estates?

By Jacob Silverman

You will die, and if your writing is any good, and thereby profitable to concerned parties, a melodramatic and legalistic morass may appear sooner than any volumes of collected works.

CRITICISM