Connecticut College, and earned her MFA at Hunter College. Her work has appeared in Granta, The New York Times, Real Simple, Saveur, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue, and on NPR’s Selected Shorts. She teaches creative writing to small groups and in the corporate space and lives in Sag Harbor, New York with her family.
[Writers Read: Jessica Soffer (April 2013); My Book, The Movie: Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots]
Soffer's new novel is This Is a Love Story.
At Lit Hub she tagged six essential literary love stories that "do not sugarcoat the inescapable fact that love is a heavy lift." One title on the list:
Julian Barnes, The Only StoryRead about another entry on the list.
The agonized—truly, this one is bleak but beloved!—memory of a romance fifty years prior is the heart of this novel, an aching exploration of memory, missteps, and the way that a love can change not only our life’s path but the essence of who we are.
An Englishman remembers a romance with a woman, thirty years his senior, who he met playing tennis doubles as the only story that matters in his life. It makes us wonder, of course, which was the only one that matters in ours.
But perhaps my favorite bit is the super Barnes craft move of switching from first person to second person to third person progressively to suggest the incredible torment of recollection and needing to move further and further away from it just to keep on.
--Marshal Zeringue
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