The Missouri Review Presents: Jason Brown

We are proud of our on-going partnership with The Missouri Review, one of the most prestigious literary magazines in the country, which is published right here in Columbia. In addition to The Missouri Review itself, TMR also published books, and we are pleased to welcome Jason Brown, author of their most recent publication, A Faithful But Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed. The ten linked stories in this collection are touching and humorous, and earn Brown a place among the very best linked-story collections.

Jason Brown grew up in Maine.  He was a Stegner Fellow and Truman Capote Fellow at Stanford and now teaches in the MFA program at the University of Oregon.  His stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Harper’s, Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, NPR’s Selected Shorts, and other places.  He has published three story collections, Driving the Heart (1999); Why the Devil Chose New England for His Work (2007); and, most recently, A Faithful But Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed (2019).