Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg

Jordy is a professor in the Department of English and Associated MFA Faculty in the Program for Poets and Writers at The University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

hero Jack Sheppard, reimagined here as a trans man al. Jordy is a Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he teaches 18th-century Literature, Gender and Sexuality studies, and Critical Theory. Praise for Confessions of the Fox A cunning metafiction of vulpine versatility. Jordy Rosenberg is the author of Confessions of the Fox, and the forthcoming hybrid work, The Day Unravels What the Night Has Woven (One World/Random House). Rosenberg, a genre-bending work of radical speculative history from below, telling the story of the real 18th-century thief, jailbreaker, and folk. Writing with the narrative mastery of Sarah Waters and the playful imagination of Nabokov, Jordy Rosenberg is an audacious storyteller of extraordinary talent.

Jordy’s work has been supported by fellowships and residencies from The Lannan Foundation, The Ahmanson-Getty Foundation, and the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies. Frann Michel recommends the novel Confessions of the Fox (2018) by Jordy. Confessions has been recognized by The New Yorker, the Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, Kirkus Reviews, LitHub, Electric Literature and the Feminist Press, among other places, as one of the Best Books of 2018, and is published by Atlantic Books in the UK, Allen & Unwin in Australia/New Zealand, Paseka in Czechia, and is forthcoming in Danish from Arena Books.

Confessions of the Fox was a New York Times Editors Choice selection, shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, a Lambda Literary Award, a Publishing Triangle Award, the UK Historical Writers Association Debut Crown Award, and longlisted for The Dublin Literary Award. Jordy Rosenberg is the author of the novel Confessions of the Fox and the forthcoming hybrid work Good Material (both from Random House/One World), as well as a scholarly monograph about 18th-century religious enthusiasts.

Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg