Jordan Castro
Jordan Castro | |
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| Born | November 13, 1992 Ohio, United States |
| Occupation | Novelist |
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Jordan Castro (born November 13, 1992) is an American writer and editor. He is the author of two books of poetry and two novels, as well as assortment of stories and essays, published in Harper's, The Paris Review, Tin House, Muumuu House, and other magazines. He was the editor of Tyrant Books online magazine from late 2016 until it closed in 2021. His second novel, Muscle Man, was published in September, 2025.
Career
[edit | edit source]The Novelist, published in 2022 by Soft Skull Press, received positive reviews in Bookforum, Los Angeles Review of Books, and, among other magazines, Wired, which stated that Castro's novel contained "some of the most accurate—and accurately abject—depictions of the experience of using the internet ever captured in fiction."[1] Michael Schaub, writing for NPR, which chose Castro's novel as a best book of the year, stated, "Castro’s fiction debut is as meta as it gets, but that’s part of its immense charm."[2]
A 2025 profile in Washington Post called Castro "something of a cultural observer himself — albeit a reluctant one" and "one of the darlings of the New York literary scene."[3]
Muscle Man
[edit | edit source]Castro's second novel, Muscle Man, was published in 2025. A review in the New Yorker stated about it, "Nearly every one of Castro’s acerbic, unfiltered paragraphs contains a bristling insight about literature, weight lifting, or academic politics."[4] It was named a best book of the year by the New Yorker[5] and GQ.[6] Bret Easton Ellis praised it in an episode of his podcast where he talked to Castro.[7]
Writing style
[edit | edit source]Castro is influenced by Thomas Bernhard and Nicholson Baker, among other writers,[8] and has stated he is "the new Dostoevsky."[9]
Bibliography
[edit | edit source]Novels
[edit | edit source]- The Novelist (Soft Skull Press, 2022)[10]
- Muscle Man (Catapult, 2025)[11]
Poetry
[edit | edit source]- Young Americans (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2013)
- If I Really Wanted to Feel Happy I'd Feel Happy Already (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2014)
Anthology, as editor
[edit | edit source]- Pets: An Anthology (Tyrant Books, 2020)
References
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- ^ https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/best-books-2025
- ^ https://www.patreon.com/c/breteastonellispodcast/posts
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Jordan Castro's X account
- A conversation with Tao Lin in The Paris Review Daily
- Appearance on Red Scare
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- 21st-century American novelists
- Living people
- 1992 births
- Alternative literature
- 21st-century American poets
- American male novelists
- American male essayists
- American male poets
- American male short story writers
- 21st-century American short story writers
- 21st-century American essayists
- 21st-century American male writers
- Novelists from Ohio