Jon Repetti is a writer and critic living in Philadelphia.

He’s also a PhD candidate in English at Princeton University and works in academic publishing.

And yes, he tweets @pourfairelevide.

Danzy Senna’s Colored Television and the “Uselessness” of Literary Fiction - The Metropolitan Review (forthcoming, Spring 2025)

Review of Aliocha Coll’s Attila & Javier Serena’s Attila - Review31 (forthcoming, Spring 2025)

Autofiction’s Primal Scene - LARB (forthcoming, Summer 2025)

Question Begging (fiction) - Maudlin House (forthcoming, Spring 2025)

The Novel After Character - Inner Life Collective (2025)

Still Ticking - American Philosophical Society Blog (2024)

Two Poems - Neologism (2023)

The Cracks in Being: On Edwin Elmer’s Mourning Picture - Paperbark Magazine (2023)

Three Poems - Moss Puppy Magazine (2023)

Publications

Five Good Hours - an ongoing essay series on Substack (updated monthly-ish)

Brief Longings - a sequence of love poems that might one day become a chapbook

Untitled Novel Project - (???)

Works-in-Progress

If you want to chat about writing and ideas, send me a DM on Twitter, Bluesky, or Substack.

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Contact