Jacob Paul

A Song of Ilan

Jacob Paulโ€™s novel, Sarah/Sara, was named by Poets & Writers as one of 2010โ€™s five best debut fictions. His work has appeared in Hunger Mountain, Western Humanities Review, Green Mountains Review, Massachusetts Review, Seneca Review, Mountain Gazette, The Rumpus, Fiction Writers Review, Numero Cinc Magazine, and USA Todayโ€™s Weekend Magazine. A former OppenheimerFunds product manager, he now teaches creative writing at High Point University in North Carolina.

Paul is the author of A Song of Ilan

From the author

โ€œWe create things that we hope will, someday, become objects of value. In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, many writersโ€“Foer, DeLillo, and Roth, to name just a fewโ€“all came out with 9/11 novels. I was initially bothered by this. I wanted to say, โ€˜Fuck you; I was there.โ€™ This passed for a couple reasons. First was the realization that weโ€™re all survivors of one type or another. Second, these texts can never really become authoritative positions on the experiences of a group of people, no matter how well written they are or how well credentialed their creators might be. Thereโ€™s no uniform experience of being a 9/11 survivor, no uniform experience of being a woman. These are things that canโ€™t be owned by anyone.โ€

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