Joshua James Amberson

Joshua James Amberson, Staring Contest (Perfect Day Publishing)

Joshua James Amberson is the author of the essay collection Staring Contest: Essays About Eyes (Perfect Day Publishing, 2023). One essay originally appeared in our Stranged Writing anthology and another appeared in our Baring the Device column.

Joshua James Amberson, author of How to Forget Almost Everything (Korza Books)

Joshua James Amberson is the author of the debut novel, How to Forget Almost Everything, which releases on November 11th, 2022 from Korza Books. Joshua is also the author of "Contact: A Catalog", which appeared in our Stranged Writing anthology.

Stranged Writing Release Reading

The Gravity of the Thing celebrates the release of Stranged Writing: A Literary Taxonomy on October 13th. Join us at The Stacks Coffeehouse to hear contributors Joshua James Amberson, Alex Behr, Lucie Bonvalet, Benjamin Kessler, Matt Rebholz, and Eli Ronick read their defamiliarized works.

The Noblest of the Senses: A Catalog | Joshua James Amberson

"René Descartes famously called sight the 'noblest' of the senses... the high status of sight is truer than when he wrote the words in 1637, as the printing press was taking the place of oral traditions." Joshua James Amberson on "vision's reign" in storytelling media and at large.