Jon Day (writer)

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Jon Day is a British writer, critic and academic. He teaches English at King's College London.[1] His essays and reviews have appeared in the London Review of Books,[2] n+1,[3] the New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement,[4] and The Guardian.[5] He is also a regular fiction critic for The Daily Telegraph[6] and the Financial Times,[7] and writes about art for Apollo magazine.[8]

Day's first book, Cyclogeography, a philosophical memoir about the years he spent as a London

bicycle courier, was published in 2015 to critical acclaim.[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] His second, Homing, was published in 2019.[17] He was a judge for the 2016 Man Booker Prize,[18] and for the 2019 Wellcome Book Prize.[19]

References

  1. ^ "King's College London - Dr Jon Day". www.kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
  2. ^ "Jon Day · LRB". www.lrb.co.uk. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
  3. ^ "Day/Jon". n+1. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
  4. ^ "You searched for Jon Day – TheTLS". TheTLS. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
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  6. ^ "Jon Day". The Telegraph. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
  7. ^ "FT". Financial Times. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
  8. ^ "Jon Day, Author at Apollo Magazine". Apollo Magazine. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
  9. ISSN 0261-3077
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  10. ISSN 0261-3077
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  11. ^ Sunyer, John (19 June 2015). "'Cyclogeography: Journeys of a London Bicycle Courier', by Jon Day". Financial Times. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
  12. ^ "Cyclogeography: Journeys of a London Bicycle Courier by Jon Day, book". The Independent. 2 July 2015. Archived from the original on 14 June 2022. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
  13. ISSN 0261-3077
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  14. ^ "The life and times of the London cycle courier". www.newstatesman.com. 13 February 2016. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
  15. ^ "The best books about London". Evening Standard. 3 December 2015. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
  16. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 15 November 2016.
  17. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 11 June 2019.
  18. ^ "Jon Day | The Man Booker Prizes". themanbookerprize.com. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
  19. ^ "Jon Day | Wellcome Book Prize". wellcomebookprize.org. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
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