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Jesse Browner

Jesse Browner
Jesse Browner is the author of the novels The Uncertain Hour, Everything Happens Today, and Sing to Me, among others, as well as of the memoir How Did I Get Here? He is also the translator of works by Jean Cocteau, Paul Eluard, Rainer Maria Rilke, Matthieu Ricard and other French literary masters. He lives in New York City.


Include as Little History as You Can: The Danger of Explaining Too Much in Historical Fiction

Jesse Browner Explores Why the Core Rules of Fiction Still Apply in Stories of the Past
May 20, 2025  By Jesse Browner
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