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Alden Jones

(She/Her)
Boston, Provincetown
As seen in: Psychology Today, The Boston Globe, The Cut, The Rumpus, UnHerd, The Millions, BOMB Magazine, The Smart Set Magazine, GO Magazine (GoMag)
Covers:  Literature, the arts, travel, cultural criticism, feminism
Author/editor of The Wanting Was a Wilderness and other books. Fulbright Specialist. Prof @EmersonCollege. Paper texts. Feminism. Curiosity.

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Alden Jones is Writer-in-Residence at Emerson College, where she teaches nonfiction and fiction writing. Her journalism has appeared in The Cut, New York Magazine, the Boston Globe, the Rumpus, the Best American Travel Writing, BOMB, Go Magazine, and Time Out New York. Her most recent book, The Wanting Was a Wilderness, was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award.

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A Brighter Picture: The Arts in Phnom Penh

A Brighter Picture: The Arts in Phnom Penh

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This Is Not a Cruise

This Is Not a Cruise

A professor on Semester at Sea writes about the ethics of travel.

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The Answer Was No

The Answer Was No

Alden Jones develops a friendship with an Angola war veteran while working in Cuba.

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​Firsts: An American Revolutionary in Cuba | Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature

​Firsts: An American Revolutionary in Cuba | Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature

If anything has shaken me fully free from childhood desires to see the world as a concrete-mould, comprehensi…

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Drawn to the Dark Side

Drawn to the Dark Side

Why as a writer do I want to take my readers to a place of doom and trouble?

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What Happens in Burma...

What Happens in Burma...

I went to Burma accidentally. This was almost exactly a year before the September 2007 violence against peace…

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Articles

Why trauma writers lie to us

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By Alden Jones
| UnHerd
As a longtime teacher of memoir writing who closely observes trends in the genre, I’ve recently been thinking of an episode involving a student I worked with in the late 2010s. “F.” had studied with me over several years. At one point, she took a long absence, confiding in me that she’d unearthed some childhood trauma and was taking the time to address it. Eventually, she sent me an essay she’d written during her leave. In it, F.
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It's About Joy: The Millions Interviews Rabih Alameddine

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By Alex Dueben, John Wray, Noah Deutsch, Alden Jones
| The Millions
Rabih Alameddine does not write novels about easy topics, but I think that every book of his has made me laugh. At its heart, The Wrong End of the Telescope is about Mina, a Lebanese-American doctor working with refugees in Lesbos-and specifically her relationship with a woman named Samaiya, who's dying of cancer. That's not really what the book is about, though.
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By Alden Jones
| bigtechdetective.net
Big Tech Detective is a browser extension that lets you track and avoid tech giants as you browse the web. While you may have the willpower to avoid scrolling through your Facebook feed or the privilege to avoid shopping on Amazon, chances are, you’re still relying on the digital infrastructure that these tech giants provide — even when you aren’t on those sites directly.
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Interview

Have you ever used a typewriter?

I have fallen to the conveniences of the laptop, but I write in a way that is as unruly as typing on paper used to be.

What's the best pitch you ever got?

An academic dean pitched me on joining the Semester at Sea faculty for a voyage around the world. I went.

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