Jeremy Gordon's writing has appeared in
The New York Times,
The Nation,
Pitchfork,
The Atlantic, and
GQ. He was born in Chicago, and currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Jen.
See Friendship is his first novel.
At Lit Hub Gordon tagged "seven novels that explore friendship in all its messy, complex beauty." One title on the list:
Mary Gaitskill, Veronica
One of the key relationships in Kenneth Lonergan’s Margaret is the friendship between Lisa (a young woman played by Anna Paquin) and Emily (an older woman played by Jeannie Berlin), who befriend each other after Emily’s best friend 
is struck and killed in a bus accident that Lisa happens to witness. It’s been a while since I’ve seen the movie, so I can only paraphrase the texture of the interaction, but one of my favorite moments is when Emily accuses Lisa of milking the tragedy to add color and drama to her own existence: “We are not all supporting characters to the drama of your amazing life,” she says. Everything feels so intense in youth, but age brings the perspective requires to get along with all this intensity—and this contrast between young and old also marks Veronica, in which a former model reminisces about her friendship with the title character, whose impact and worth cannot quite be appreciated until the narrator is old herself.
Read about
the other novels on the list at Lit Hub.
--Marshal Zeringue
Jeremy Gordon's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, Pitchfork, The Atlantic, and GQ. He was born in Chicago, and currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Jen.
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