During the summer of 2008, Larry Fondation interviewed Harold Jaffe for Rain Taxi. To buy the issue, click here. Larry Fondation: Talk a little bit about docufiction – how and why you started producing it… Harold Jaffe: Some thirty-five years ago, Tom Wolfe, Hunter Thompson, and a few other “journalists” set about deliberately melding journalistic […]

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Interviews from the Edge presents a selection of conversations, drawn from 50 years of the international journal New Orleans Review. Robin Andreasen conducted an interview with Harold Jaffe for the New Orleans Review in 2014. To buy the reprinted interview through Bloomsbury, you can click the link here. Interviewer Is it possible for a member of an educated elite to adequately […]

Read More Interviews from the Edge Reprinted Interview in Bloomsbury with Harold Jaffe, originally published in New Orleans Review

Harold Jaffe and Terese Svoboda held a mutual interview for Mad Hatter’s Review in the fall of 2008 for issue 10. Jaffe: So-called journalism is even more palpably fictionalized than historiography, especially in times of perceived crisis. My “docufiction,” then, is intended to accomplish a few things: expose the pious NY Times or NY Review of Books […]

Read More Mutual Interview between Harold Jaffe and Terese Svoboda in Mad Hatter’s Review

“Slash and Burn” published in March 1997 and “Outcast Narrative” published in January 1999 can both be found in Electronic Book Review. To visit Harold Jaffe’s page, read these Nonfictions, or read his bio, you can visit the Electronic Book Review website or go to Jaffe’s “Nonfiction” page on WordPress.

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Essayist, Daniel Green, reviews Harold Jaffe’s works of fiction Anti-Twitter and Induced Coma. “If any writer deliberately proceeded throughout his career to almost ensure his work would be ignored by critics and publishers, it would have to be Harold Jaffe. Jaffe has steadfastly continued to write fiction that is formally and conceptually adventurous while at the same time […]

Read More “All the World’s a Docufiction: On Harold Jaffe” an essay by Daniel Green in Kenyon Review

Interview by Sean Coolican Coolican: I’m here with Harold Jaffe, author of 29 books that include 15 Serial Killers, Induced Coma, Revolutionary Brain, Sacred Outcast: Dispatches from India, Paris 60, Dos Indios, Death Café, and Anti-Twitter.  I’m curious about the preface of Goosestep that reads, “I am of the race that sings under torture,” a line that is repeated later in […]

Read More Poetry International Interview with Harold Jaffe on Goosestep: Fictions & Docufictions

INTERVIEW by TARA STILLIONS WHITEHEAD INTERVIEWER In 2015, you released Death Cafe with Anti-Oedipus Press. That collection constitutes, among other things, a discerning critique of global pain, political hypocrisy, and death itself, which are, of course, not new to your work. With Goosestep: Fictions and Docufictions (JEF, 2016), however, your social critiques are framed much more intimately; one might say Goosestep is more transparent […]

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[BOOK REVIEW] SUSAN GRACE REVIEWS HAROLD JAFFE’S NEW BOOK, DEATH CAFÉ April 14, 2016 Harold Jaffe, progressive, social activist, and author of 24 innovative books, including Othello Blues, Revolutionary Brain, Anti-Twitter, and Induced Coma, has planted another mine in the minds of readers worldwide with his latest work, Death Café…   

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