Jon Day (writer)

Jon Day is a British writer, critic and academic. He teaches English at King's College London.[1] His essays and reviews have appeared in the London Review of Books,[2] n+1,[3] the New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement,[4] and The Guardian.[5] He is also a regular fiction critic for The Daily Telegraph[6] and the Financial Times,[7] and writes about art for Apollo magazine.[8]

Day's first book, Cyclogeography, a philosophical memoir about the years he spent as a London bicycle courier, was published in 2015 to critical acclaim.[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] His second, Homing, was published in 2019.[17] He was a judge for the 2016 Man Booker Prize,[18] and for the 2019 Wellcome Book Prize.[19]

References
  1. "King's College London - Dr Jon Day". www.kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
  2. "Jon Day · LRB". www.lrb.co.uk. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
  3. "Day/Jon". n+1. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
  4. "You searched for Jon Day – TheTLS". TheTLS. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
  5. Day, Jon (1 May 2015). "The secret life of a cycle courier". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
  6. "Jon Day". The Telegraph. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
  7. "FT". Financial Times. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
  8. "Jon Day, Author at Apollo Magazine". Apollo Magazine. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
  9. Kellaway, Kate (25 May 2015). "Cyclogeography: Journeys of a London Bicycle Courier review – life, the universe and everything on two wheels". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
  10. Lezard, Nicholas (11 October 2016). "Cyclogeography by Jon Day review – mysticism, racing and trying to get lost". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
  11. Sunyer, John (19 June 2015). "'Cyclogeography: Journeys of a London Bicycle Courier', by Jon Day". Financial Times. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
  12. "Cyclogeography: Journeys of a London Bicycle Courier by Jon Day, book". The Independent. 2 July 2015. Archived from the original on 14 June 2022. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
  13. readers, Guardian (26 December 2015). "Readers' books of the year 2015". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
  14. "The life and times of the London cycle courier". www.newstatesman.com. 13 February 2016. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
  15. "The best books about London". Evening Standard. 3 December 2015. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
  16. Observer, The (12 July 2015). "Best holiday reads 2015". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
  17. Moran, Joe (7 June 2019). "Homing by Jon Day review – on pigeons and why we return". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
  18. "Jon Day | The Man Booker Prizes". themanbookerprize.com. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
  19. "Jon Day | Wellcome Book Prize". wellcomebookprize.org. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
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