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Daniel Allen Cox

@danielallencox.bsky.social

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I Felt the End Before It Came / The Guardian, The Globe and Mall, Lit Hub, Electric Lit, The Rumpus, Geist, The Malahat Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Best Canadian Essays / He/him danielallencox.net

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Daniel Allen Cox @danielallencox.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

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!

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

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Daniel Allen Cox @danielallencox.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

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: thinairfestival.ca/user/1159/

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

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Daniel Allen Cox @danielallencox.bsky.social · 29/08/2023

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

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.

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Daniel Allen Cox @danielallencox.bsky.social · 26/08/2023

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.

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.

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Daniel Allen Cox @danielallencox.bsky.social · 26/07/2023

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. <3 <3 <3

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Daniel Allen Cox @danielallencox.bsky.social · 18/07/2023

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.

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

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Daniel Allen Cox @danielallencox.bsky.social · 12/07/2023

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." 😭 😭

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

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