Jeff Nunokawa

Note Book Jeff Nunokawa

Publisher Marketing:"The hunger for a feeling of connection that informs most everything I've written flows from a common break in a common heart, one I share with everyone I've ever really known." ("Note Book") Every single morning since early 2007, Princeton English professor Jeff Nunokawa has posted a brief essay in the Notes section of his Facebook page. Often just a few sentences but never more than a few paragraphs, these compelling literary and personal meditations have raised the Facebook post to an art form, gained thousands of loyal readers, and been featured in the "New Yorker." In "Note Book," Nunokawa has selected some 250 of the most powerful and memorable of these essays, many accompanied by the snapshots originally posted alongside them. The result is a new kind of literary work for the age of digital and social media, one that reimagines the essay's efforts, at least since Montaigne, to understand our common condition by trying to understand ourselves. Ranging widely, the essays often begin with a quotation from one of Nunokawa's favorite writers George Eliot, Henry James, Gerard Manley Hopkins, W. H. Auden, Robert Frost, or James Merrill, to name a few. At other times Nunokawa is just as likely to be discussing Joni Mitchell or Spanish soccer striker Fernando Torres. Confessional and moving, enlightening and entertaining, "Note Book" is ultimately a profound reflection on loss and loneliness and on the compensations that might be found through writing, literature, and connecting to others through social media. " Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 02/16/2015 (EAN 9780691166490, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2015 (EAN 9780691166490, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Nunokawa, Jeff Jeff Nunokawa teaches English literature at Princeton University and lives in Princeton and New York. Contributor Bio:  Ochlan, P J P. J. Ochlan s work behind the microphone began in 1987 as a young voice-over talent with many commercials and promos. More recently he spent ten years as a Southern California radio personality with programs on several stations. And now, in addition to his ongoing voice-over work, he is an acclaimed and record-setting audiobook narrator with dozens of fiction and nonfiction titles to his credit.