JAY FOX

Jay Fox

Not since the debut of Hunter S. Thompson or Thomas Pynchon has there been a book to emerge that speaks so clearly to a generation. Jay Fox’s debut novel, THE WALLS, is arguably the first iconic book from the Millennials.

Set in Brooklyn during the opening decade of the 21st century, Fox has captured the heartbeat, the zeitgeist, the essence of the echo boomers as they confront an uncertain future built upon a rapidly receding past.

The search, the hunt, the motivation to discover the truth presses Fox’s eclectic cast as they deal with their own lives, one day at a time. Certain to resonate now and in the rearview mirror of history, THE WALLS is a book, a story, a time capsule that snapshots and chronicles the quest to find a famous, elusive New York City graffiti artist whose greatest works can only be found in restrooms of underbelly dive bars in contemporary Brooklyn.

Jay Fox was born in Birmingham, Michigan in 1983. He graduated from Birmingham Seaholm High School in 2001 and from NYU in 2005. He is a frequent columnist for Stay Thirsty Magazine. THE WALLS is his debut novel.

Jay Fox lives in Brooklyn.

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Thirsty : Vol. 113: Jay Fox On: Hanya Yanagihara's To Paradise
Thirsty : Vol. 112: Jay Fox On: Rabih Alameddine's The Wrong End of the Telescope
Thirsty : Vol. 111: Jay Fox On: Betina González’s American Delirium
Thirsty : Vol. 110: Movie Review: First Cow
Thirsty : Vol. 110: Jay Fox On: Marleke Lucas Rijneveld's The Discomfort of Evening
Thirsty : Vol. 109: Bacurau by Jay Fox
Thirsty : Vol. 109: Jay Fox On: Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
Thirsty : Vol. 108: Alfred Hitchcock's ROPE by Jay Fox
Thirsty : Vol. 108: Jay Fox On: Fernanda Melchor's Hurricane Season
Thirsty : Vol. 107: Millennials and A New World Order by Jay Fox
Thirsty : Vol. 107: Dive Bar Tales: Commonwealth by Jay Fox
Thirsty : Vol. 107: Jay Fox On: Simone De Beauvoir's Les Mandarins
Thirsty : Vol. 106: Dive Bar Tales: Sackett by Jay Fox
Thirsty : Vol. 106: Jay Fox On: Box Brown's Cannabis - The Illegalization of Weed in America
Thirsty : Vol. 105: Cannabis - Part II by Jay Fox
Thirsty : Vol. 105: Jay Fox On: Laila Lalami's The Other American
Thirsty : Vol. 104: Cannabis - Part I by Jay Fox
Thirsty : Vol. 103: Dive Bar Tales: Finnegans Wake Pub by Jay Fox
Thirsty : Vol. 103: Jay Fox on Maaza Mengiste's Beneath the Lion's Gaze
Thirsty : 2018 Fall: To the Guy at the End of the Bar by Jay Fox
Thirsty : 2018 Fall: Jay Fox on Laszlo Krasznahorkai's The World Goes On
Thirsty : 2018 Summer: Dive Bar Tales: Top Hops by Jay Fox
Thirsty : 2018 Summer: Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road by Jay Fox
Thirsty : 2018 Spring : Dive Bar Tales - Holland Bar
Thirsty : 2018 Spring : Robert Penn Warren's All The King's Men
Thirsty : 2018 Winter : Dive Bar Tales - Alphaville
Thirsty : 2018 Winter : Shion Miura's The Great Passage
Thirsty : 2017 Fall : Dive Bar Tales - The Footlight
Thirsty : 2017 Fall : Arthur Miller's The Man Who Had All The Luck
Thirsty : 2017 Summer : Dive Bar Tales - Halyards
Thirsty : 2017 Summer : Djuana Barnes' Nightwood
Thirsty : 2017 Spring : Dive Bar Tales - Matchless
Thirsty : 2017 Spring : Magda Szabo's Iza's Ballard
Thirsty : 2017 Winter : Dive Bar Tales - Barrel & Fare
Thirsty : 2017 Winter : John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces
Thirsty : 2016 Fall : Jay Fox on Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet
Thirsty : 2016 Fall : Tales of an American Aquarium Drinker - The Owl Farm, Park Slope
Thirsty : 2016 Summer : Tales of an American Aquarium Drinker - China Bar, Flushing
Thirsty : 2016 Summer : Jay Fox on Ralph Waldo Ellison's Invisible Man
Thirsty : 2016 Spring : Tales of an American Aquarium Drinker - Clockwork (Two Bridges)
Thirsty : 2016 Spring : Jay Fox on José Saramago's The Elephant's Journey
Thirsty : 2016 Winter : Tales of an American Aquarium Drinker - Farrell's Bar and Grill, Windsor Terrace
Thirsty : 2016 Winter : Jay Fox on Sinclair Lewis' Main Street
Thirsty : 2015 Fall : Tales of an American Aquarium Drinker - Buttermilk Bar, Park Slope
Thirsty : 2015 Fall : Jay Fox on Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents
Thirsty : 2015 Summer : Jay Fox on Andrew's Brain by E.L. Doctorow
Thirsty : 2015 Summer : Tales of an American Aquarium Drinker - McFadden's Restaurant and Saloon - Flushing, Queens
Thirsty : 2015 Spring : Jay Fox on Albert Camus' The Rebel
Thirsty : 2015 Spring : Tales of an American Aquarium Drinker - Dean Street, Prospect Heights
Thirsty : 2015 Winter : Jay Fox on man and crisis by José Ortega y Gasset
Thirsty : 2015 Winter : Tales of an American Aquarium Drinker - Rockwood Music Hall, Lower East Side
Thirsty : 2014 Fall : Jay Fox on Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
Thirsty : 2014 Fall : Tales of an American Aquarium Drinker - Subway Inn, Lenox Hill
Can corporations go to hell? An existential quandary for the Supreme Court - Salon.com
Thirsty : 2014 Summer : Jay Fox on The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
Thirsty : 2014 Summer : Tales of an American Aquarium Drinker - Molly's, Gramercy Park
Thirsty : 2014 Spring : Jay Fox on Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
Thirsty : 2014 Spring : Tales of an American Aquarium Drinker - Quarter, South Slope, Brooklyn
Thirsty : 2014 Winter : Tales of an American Aquarium Drinker - 69th Regiment Armory, Gramercy Park
Thirsty : 2014 Winter : The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Thirsty : 2013 Fall : Tales of an American Aquarium Drinker - International Bar, East Village
Thirsty : 2013 Fall : Nabokov's Pnin
Thirsty : 2013 Summer : Jay Fox on The Trial By Franz Kafka
Thirsty : 2013 Summer : Tales of an American Aquarium Drinker - 4th Avenue Pub, Boerum Hill
Thirsty : 2013 Spring : Tales of an American Aquarium Drinker - The Gate (Park Slope)
Thirsty : 2013 Spring : Jay Fox on Snow
Thirsty : 2013 March : From Suetonius to Bolaño – What Our Authors Are Reading - March 2013
Thirsty : 2013 March : Tales of an American Aquarium Drinker - Canal Bar (Gowanus)
Thirsty : 2013 February : Jay Fox Talks About Faulkner, Pynchon and Salinger
Thirsty : 2013 February : Tales of an American Aquarium Drinker - Spanky and Darla's (East Village)
Thirsty : 2013 January : A Greyhound Christmas
Thirsty : 2012 December : Tales of an American Aquarium Drinker - Iggy's Keltic Lounge
Thirsty : 2012 November : Tales of an American Aquarium Drinker - Black Horse Pub, Park Slope
Thirsty : 2012 October : Tales of an American Aquarium Drinker - Marshall Stack (Lower East Side)
Thirsty : 2012 September : Tales of an American Aquarium Drinker - Greenwood Park, Brooklyn
Thirsty : 2012 August : Tales of an American Aquarium Drinker - Burp Castle, East Village
Thirsty : 2012 July : Tales of an American Aquarium Drinker - Brooklyn Inn, Boerum Hill
Thirsty : 2012 June : Tales of an American Aquarium Drinker - Lucey's Lounge, Gowanus
Thirsty : 2012 May : Tales of an American Aquarium Drinker - Lowlands, Gowanus
Thirsty : 2012 April : Tales of an American Aquarium Drinker - Freddy's, South Slope
Thirsty : 2012 March : Tales of an American Aquarium Drinker - Red Star Bar, Greenpoint
Thirsty : 2012 February : Tales of an American Aquarium Drinker - The Brooklyn Tavern, Boerum Hill
Thirsty : 2012 January : RAGE AGAINST THE ALGORITHMS - The First ECHO Event
Thirsty : 2012 January : New York City - Sine Qua Non
Jay Fox and first novel 'The Walls': How Brooklyn author found his subject — and time to write about it - NY Daily News
Thirsty : 2011 December : A Look Behind THE WALLS By Jay Fox
Thirsty : 2011 December : Tales of an American Aquarium Drinker - Uncle Mike's, TriBeCa
Thirsty : 2011 November : Tales of an American Aquarium Drinker - Mary's, South Brooklyn
Thirsty : 2011 October : Tales of an American Aquarium Drinker - Montero's Bar & Grill
Thirsty : 2011 September : Tales of an American Aquarium Drinker - Union Pool, Williamsburg
Thirsty : 2011 August : Tales of an American Aquarium Drinker - Arlene's Grocery, Lower East Side
Thirsty : 2011 July : Tales of an American Aquarium Drinker - Hank's Saloon, Boerum Hill
Thirsty : 2011 June : Tales of an American Aquarium Drinker - Brooklyn Pub, Brooklyn
Thirsty : 2011 May : Tales of an American Aquarium Drinker - Turkey's Nest - Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Thirsty : 2011 April : Tales of an American Aquarium Drinker - Veronica's Bar - Long Island City, Queens
Thirsty : 2011 March : Tales of an American Aquarium Drinker - Mars Bar - The Village, NYC
Thirsty : 2011 February : Tales of an American Aquarium Drinker - Irish Haven - Sunset Park, Brooklyn
Thirsty : 2011 January : Tales of an American Aquarium Drinker - 169 Bar

(Photograph of Jay Fox: Ashley Sears)