Joshua Ferris is the author of
the novel “Then
We Came To The End”, published by Little, Brown. The novel is about a group
of co-workers in a Chicago ad agency. “More Abandon”, the Joshua Ferris story
included in the anthology “Best New American Voices 2005”, sounds very similar,
as it involves an office worker who stays in the office after hours, prying
into his co-worker’s desks. However, what has got all the commentators excited
about this novel is that it is written in “the first-person plural”, which you
might get some sense of from the title. Joshua Ferris was awarded his BA by the
University of Iowa in 1996. He then lived in Chicago, which he regards as home.
However, he then attended the MFA program at UC Irvine. His first published
story, “Mrs. Blue”, appeared in the “Iowa Review” in 1999. Then We Came To
The End has been longlisted for the UK 2007 Guardian First Book Award. Joshua Ferris is currently writing his first movie script, “Seven Days”, which is set to be directed by Mark Waters.
Visit the official Then We Came to
the End webpage – requires Adobe Flash
Joshua Ferris –
a biography that looks to have been written by Joshua himself, and also a photo
of him
“Then We Came
To The End” – our page on the novel, where you can watch the Youtube advert
for the book and submit a review
Writers Revealed – have an podcast
interview with Joshua Ferris that you can download
All in a day’s work
– Alden Mudge’s interview with Joshua Ferris
Then we started
hearing about Joshua Ferris – Dave Weich’s interview with Joshua Ferris
Things
I’d Rather Be Doing – their interview with Joshua Ferris
Working
Week – Chris Varmus’ interview with Joshua Ferris for The Brooklyn Paper
Writers’ Rooms:
Joshua Ferris – Joshua Ferris writes about his work environment
Living
with music: a playlist by Joshua Ferris – an article for The New York
Times
Did
Joshua Ferris’s novel sell to HBO? – Joshua Ferris himself confirms that it
did indeed do so
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