In “If I Survive You,” Escoffery, the son of Jamaican immigrants, wrote stories that are not strictly autobiographical, but feel true to his experience. By Kate Dwyer Ackee is ripe when the fruit ...

Jonathan Escoffery’s debut story collection, “If I Survive You,” follows a young man through family tensions and personal struggles. By Andrew Martin When you purchase an independently reviewed book ...

Wayne Escoffery was born in London and raised in New Haven, Connecticut. He began playing the saxophone at the age of 11, later studying at the Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven and the New ...

Writer Jonathan Escoffery left Miami 11 years ago, but the city, as it often does, lingers in his memory. Partly because he still has family in town. Partly because his feelings about growing up as ...

The best book titles feel wholly different to the reader by the time the book is finished. And the best books teach you their own logic, offering specific and surprising definitions of previously ...

From the circular-breathing introduction to the titular opening track, saxophonist Wayne Escoffery makes clear that his first release, '01's Times Change, was but a calling card, announcing the ...

A bright, energetic tenor saxophonist, Wayne Escoffery always plays with great feeling and fun. Often he does so as a sideman to modern jazz masters, but occasionally he gets the chance to lead his ...

In leading a quintet flanked by two keyboardists – one unplugged, the other lost amid laptops and wires – the 38-year-old expat British saxophonist Wayne Escoffery perhaps implied a more startling ...

When Jonathan Escoffery got the news that his short story collection had been longlisted for the National Book Award, the Oakland-based writer was barely awake. “I got a phone call at about 7 a.m.

Eight linked short stories, set mostly in Miami, vividly evoke the experiences of a young Black man in search of a sense of belonging You wake up and discover your friend in your kitchen, boiling eggs ...

Trelawny, the narrator of one of the linked stories in “If I Survive You” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), a ravishing début by Jonathan Escoffery, introduces himself by explaining, “I hunt elderly people.