Daniel Allen Cox

Richard Scott Larson’s The Long Hallway When Richard Scott Larson was twelve going on thirteen, he started having a recurring nightmare of travelling a hallway full of dangerous, distorted characters toward a door slightly ajar, with someon...

I'm so floored by this gorgeous and generous review of my book in The Brooklyn Rail by @danielallencox.bsky.social: "[I]t is impossible to prepare for the way that Larson describes, in this vivid and cinematic memoir debut, the summer that defined his life." 🏳️‍🌈

I Felt the End Before It Came in PW Best Books 2023

Didn't see this coming. I Felt the End Before It Came is a PW Best Book of the Year. 😭

"There’s a live-wire intensity running through Cox's prose that makes this easy to read and difficult to forget."

Happy to be here with so many writers I admire. Thank you, Publishers Weekly!

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My latest book review is up at Plenitude Magazine of Daniel Allen Cox's I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah’s Witness.

Particularly proud of the blood, sweat, tears-and life research-that went into this one.
plenitudemagazine.ca/hope-and-hid...

Thanks so much, Riley!

Me in shorts, t-shirt and baseball cap sitting on a red folding set in front of Montreal's Olympic Stadium.

A mini documentary about I Felt the End Before It Came is now premiering at the Winnipeg International Writers Festival. 🥳

There's some behind the scenes of the five wild years it took to write the book, and of course, some Montreal weirdness:

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Your amazing support for I Felt the End Before It Came means that there's going to be a second tour. Fall details announced soon! Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Victoria & more.

Can't wait to take this book on the road again!

The collection of essays in author Daniel Cox’s I Felt the End Before it Came are at once fanciful and pragmatic, heartfelt and heartbreaking. In a style reminiscent of David Sedaris, Cox winds his narratives through personal history with intent, if not always ease. The lead essay, The Letter, introduces the culture of the Jehovah’s Witnesses for any unfamiliar and Cox’s relationship with the order and the people in his life he had to leave behind.

These notes carry through the rest of the collection, as Cox describes experiencing Y2K with the backdrop of the Witness’ apocalyptic mindset, the challenge of continuing the relationship with his mother, and his struggle with alcoholism. I Felt the End Before it Came is a raw, personal experience, recommended for readers of Sedaris and fans of Paris is Burning.

Marquette, Michigan's daily newspaper runs reviews of new arrivals at the local public library, and this one is sending me 😳

My book is really getting out there.

Author Daniel Allen Cox discards perfection in narrating his audiobook Narrating the memoir I Felt The End Before It Came taught Cox more about speech and voice than the writer had learned in years

For the Globe and Mail, I wrote about stuttering, almost saying no to narrating my audiobook, and getting rid of ideas of perfection that have nothing to do with us.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/article-author-daniel-allen-cox-discards-perfection-in-narrating-his-audiobook/

Mark and I recently realized that the first concert we went to together was Sinéad O'Connor's free outdoor show in Montreal in the summer of 1997— eight years before we met. Of course. Here's Mark in Dublin in 2019.

RIP, Sinéad. Today we remember and feel your power.

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come conjure lols with me in this two-day workshop for @shipmanagency.bsky.social august 8 & 15! 🤡🤡🤡

sign up here: https://www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/writing-workshop-a-laughing-matter-using-humor-in-memoir-and-essay-with-greg-mania

Thank you. There’s a fantasy of AI we get from science fiction that is not this AI but people are primed to think it is, and companies are exploiting that misimpression.

Me sitting on a red folding seat in front of Stade Olympique in Montreal.

Some news: we're making a mini-documentary about my book, to premiere at a literary festival this fall. 😭

We broke through a fence to get this outtake, which is fitting —I can't separate my life from le Stade.

I Felt the End Before It Came • Montreal Review of Books Daniel Allen Cox’s new memoir in essays is a captivating, richly layered text that dismantles any reductive ideas readers may hold.

Check out the rest of the review, and my interview with H Felix Chau Bradley:

https://mtlreviewofbooks.ca/reviews/i-felt-the-end-before-it-came-daniel-allen-cox-queer-jehovah-witness/

Leaving and Learning by H Felix Chau Bradley in the summer 2023 issue of Montreal Review of Books

What a thing to wake up to, in Montreal Review of Books:

"A captivating, richly layered text that dismantles any reductive ideas readers may hold about indoctrination, departures, comings-out, and the practice of memoir-writing itself."

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