The move-prompted by James's penchant for gambling, his inability to keep his impulses in check-is quick and seamless both Julie and James are happy to leave behind their usual haunts and start afresh. Jac Jemc's The Grip of It is a chilling literary horror novel about a young couple haunted by their newly purchased home.Ī chilling literary horror novel, Jac Jemc's THE GRIP OF IT tells the story Julia and James, a young couple haunted by their new home. 1 Brooklyn's Best Books of 2017, a BOMB Magazine "Looking Back on 2017: Literature" Pick, and one of Vulture's 10 Best Thriller Books of 2017.
Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo Finalist for the Chicago Review of Books Fiction Award, Dan Chaon's Best of 2017 pick in Publishers Weekly, one of Vol. She recently completed a stint as the writer in residence at the University of Notre Dame and currently teaches at Northeastern Illinois University and StoryStudio Chicago, as well as online at Writers & Books and the Loft Literary Center, and she is the web nonfiction editor for Hobart.Also available on eBook for £4.99. She has been the recipient of two Illinois Arts Council Professional Development Grants, and in 2014 was named one of 25 Writers to Watch by the Guild Literary Complex and one of Newcity's Lit 50 in Chicago.
Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and winner of the Paula Anderson Book Award, and A Different Bed Every Time. Jac Jemc is the author of My Only Wife, a finalist for the 2013 PEN / Robert W. In Jemc's dislocating second story collection, sinister forces-some supernatural, some of this earth, some real and some not-work their ways into everyday life.
Free and open to the public.Ībout the book: The mundane becomes sinister in a disquieting story collection from the author of The Grip of It.
We welcome award-winning author Jac Jemc as part of our ongoing Fiction at Literati series in support of her latest short story collection, False Bingo. Jac will be in-conversation with U of M Lecturer Gina Brandolino.
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