Jayson Greene

{{short description|American writer and editor}}

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Jayson Greene (born {{birth based on age as of date |33 |2015|05|17|noage=1}}) is an American author, music critic and editor. He has served as a senior editor of online music magazine Pitchfork{{cite news |last1=Maher |first1=John |title=Knopf to Publish Memoir of a Father's Loss |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/72770-knopf-to-publish-memoir-of-a-father-s-loss.html |accessdate=11 April 2019 |work=Publishers Weekly |date=February 10, 2017}} and is the author of Once More We Saw Stars, a memoir about the death of his two-year-old daughter, in 2015.{{cite news |last1=Chaban |first1=Matt A. V. |last2=Rojas |first2=Rick |title=Girl, 2, Dies After Being Struck by Falling Piece of Windowsill in Manhattan |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/19/nyregion/girl-2-dies-after-being-struck-by-falling-piece-of-windowsill-in-manhattan.html |accessdate=11 April 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=18 May 2015}} The book, released May 14, 2019,{{cite news|url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/hodder-buys-father-s-moving-memoir-face-tragedy-899341|title=Hodder buys bereaved father's 'moving' memoir|last1=Cowdrey|first1=Katherine|date=November 23, 2018|work=The Bookseller|accessdate=11 April 2019}} received a starred review from Publishers Weekly{{cite news |title=Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781524733537 |accessdate=11 April 2019 |work=Publishers Weekly |date=January 16, 2019}} and was named to lists of most-anticipated books of 2019 by Entertainment Weekly, the Observer, New York magazine's Vulture, Elle, Oprah Magazine and Bustle.{{cite news |last1=Kelly |first1=Hillary |title=37 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2019 |url=https://www.vulture.com/2019/01/37-books-we-cant-wait-to-read-in-2019.html |accessdate=11 April 2019 |work=Vulture |publisher=New York Magazine |date=January 7, 2019}}{{cite magazine |last1=Canfield |first1=David |title=The 50 most anticipated books of 2019 |url=https://ew.com/books/50-most-anticipated-books-2019/ |accessdate=11 April 2019 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=December 20, 2018 |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Jarema |first1=Kerri |title=29 New Memoirs To Make Your Spring Reading Dreams Come True |url=https://www.bustle.com/p/29-new-memoirs-out-in-spring-to-help-you-welcome-warm-weather-reading-17003800 |accessdate=11 April 2019 |work=Bustle |date=April 4, 2019 |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Tang |first1=Estelle |title=The Best Books to Read This Spring |url=https://www.elle.com/culture/books/g26629107/best-spring-2019-books/ |accessdate=11 April 2019 |work=Elle |date=11 March 2019}}{{cite news |last1=LeBlanc |first1=Lauren |title=The 16 Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2019 |url=https://observer.com/2019/03/spring-preview-2019-most-anticipated-books-susan-choi-sally-rooney-harper-lee-kurt-cobain/ |accessdate=11 April 2019 |work=Observer |date=18 March 2019 |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Haber |first1=Leigh |last2=Hart |first2=Michelle |title=Everyone's Talking About These Books – Here's Why |url=https://www.oprahmag.com/entertainment/books/g25335565/2019-best-book-releases/?slide=28 |accessdate=11 April 2019 |work=Oprah Magazine |date=21 March 2019}}

Reviewing Once More We Saw Stars for The New York Times, Alex Witchel praised the book as "a revelation of lightness and agility. That [Greene] managed to keep his facility for language during a period where it often disappears is a miracle. He has created a narrative of grief and acceptance that is compulsively readable and never self-indulgent."{{cite news |last1=Witchel |first1=Alex |title=Grieving the Death of a Child in 'Once More We Saw Stars' (Published 2019) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/13/books/review/once-more-we-saw-stars-jayson-greene.html |access-date=18 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=13 May 2019}} Rolling Stone gave it four of five stars, noting that the story which "might be too bleak to face" instead is "an intensely moving, life-affirming story about a young couple moving through the darkest depths of grief together, making it up as they go along."{{Cite magazine|last=Sheffield|first=Rob|date=2019-05-15|title=Book Review: Jayson Greene's 'Once More We Saw Stars' is a Staggering Work of Quiet Heartbreak|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/review-jayson-greenes-once-more-we-saw-stars-835357/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-12-18|magazine=Rolling Stone|language=en-US}}