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Jake Clayson

The Essayist Backstage

An Essay on Essaying, in Several Takes

Oct 12, 2018

The Essayist Backstage

Oct 12, 2018

Jake Clayson

Readymades and Relativity // Interview Transcript (Excerpt)

Jacob: You once claimed that an essay is anything an essayist creates. This reminds me of the Dada art movement… I’m trying to remember…

Oct 12, 2018

Readymades and Relativity // Interview Transcript (Excerpt)

Oct 12, 2018

Jake Clayson

All Dressed Up (Nowhere Going Everywhere) // Takes Four and Five

So far, I’ve both agreed and disagreed with D’Agata’s habit of calling whatever he likes an essay; I’ve defined the essay by its raw…

Oct 12, 2018

All Dressed Up (Nowhere Going Everywhere) // Takes Four and Five

Oct 12, 2018

Jake Clayson

Contractual Uncertainty // Interview Transcript (Excerpt)

Jacob: So what’s your take on truth? Is an essayist required to be truthful?

Oct 12, 2018

Contractual Uncertainty // Interview Transcript (Excerpt)

Oct 12, 2018

Jake Clayson

Kill the Messenger (Kiss the Essayist) // Take Three

At any rate, I prefer to define (and pursue) the essay as a mode — a way of traveling creatively or critically — rather than as a form…

Oct 12, 2018

Kill the Messenger (Kiss the Essayist) // Take Three

Oct 12, 2018

Jake Clayson

The Essay as Outtake // Alternate Take & Studio Chatter

The Beatles Anthology double disk albums were released just as I began listening beyond my parents’ collection at age twelve. I checked…

Oct 12, 2018

The Essay as Outtake // Alternate Take & Studio Chatter

Oct 12, 2018

Jake Clayson

D’Agata’s Ratatouille // Alternate Take

According to American poet Joanna Klink, John D’Agata calls anything he likes an essay: poems, sunsets, meals, whatever. This may be…

Oct 12, 2018

D’Agata’s Ratatouille // Alternate Take

Oct 12, 2018

Jake Clayson

Of a Thesis // Interview Transcript (Excerpt)

Jake: In the critical introduction I’m working on for my thesis, I quote Phillip Lopate early on: “in its preference for a conversational…

Oct 12, 2018

Of a Thesis // Interview Transcript (Excerpt)

Oct 12, 2018

Jake Clayson

The Essayist as Outlaw // Take One

Long before I discovered the essay, rough-cut gems fascinated me. I suspect this draw began in utero, my mind and body awash in the…

Oct 12, 2018

The Essayist as Outlaw // Take One

Oct 12, 2018

Jake Clayson

Ash Wednesday, Salt Lake City

Note: the following is an essay from my MFA thesis and was originally published in the Fall 2014 print issue of Inscape, a literary…

Jan 2, 2017

Ash Wednesday, Salt Lake City

Jan 2, 2017

Jake Clayson

Jake Clayson

A paterfamilias with an MFA in nonfiction: I'm an essayist, entrepreneur, and creative director interested in product management.

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