American writer living temporarily in Hartford County, CT, United States and Montréal, QC

Contact:

jacque.feldman [at] gmail.com

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Selected Work:

Precarious Lease, account of a squat in Paris’s 19th Arrondissement (Fitzcarraldo, 2025).

PL reading list.

Julia Steiner, “Jacqueline Feldman: ‘It’s salutary to spend time around people who have arranged their lives in radical ways‘” (London Magazine, 2025).

Excerpt from Precarious Lease.

Reviewed in LARB.

Reviewed in the FT.

In Era journal.

Fitzcarraldo’s Precarious Lease is a Shakespeare & Co (Paris) “Coup de coeur.”

On French activism and literary form.

Millicent Penner, “Jacqueline Feldman” (TANK No. 105).

Mark Iosifescu, “Precarious Lease” (Whitney Review No. 006).

Le Bloc reunion, After 8 Books.

“Home from Paris,” an early fragment (upcoming in Transat‘).

On Your Feet: A Novel in Translations (dispersed holdings, 2024).

Tobias Ryan, “‘There’s nothing to be preserved’: An interview with Jacqueline Feldman” (minor literature[s], 2024).

“On Your Feet,” translation of a story by Nathalie Quintane (The White Review, 2022).

“Casting Off,” about the labor of translating Nathalie Quintane (new sinews 6, 2022).

Excerpt from On Your Feet.

Reviewed in the CRB.

“Siding with Joy: A Conversation with Anne Serre” (Paris Review Daily, 2024).

“Emma’s Last Night” (Paris Review Daily, 2024).

“Apartment Four” (Paris Review Daily, 2023).

“How the Booksellers of Paris are Preparing for Next Summer’s Olympics” (Paris Review Daily, 2023).

“The New Naturists,” short fiction (Socrates on the Beach, 2023).

Passel, collection of short fiction (new sinews 5, 2022).

“Milena,” short fiction (Socrates on the Beach, 2021).

A memoir of AI’s past bias (StatORec, 2021).

Also available as a pamphlet (dispersed holdings, 2023. First edition of 100).

“Turing Tests,” talk given at the Institut de France as part of the conference Talking Machines (2021).

“Saint Briac,” short fiction (3:AM Magazine, 2021).

“Story for Malte,” short fiction (The Skirt Chronicles Vol. VII, 2020).

“Rosie,” short fiction (3:AM Magazine, 2020).

Two entries in the Quarantine Journal (The Point, 2020).

On Virginie Despentes (The Nation, 2020).