Joshua Ferris is an author. His most recent novel, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, is available from 29 May
September 2021
Books that made me
Joshua Ferris: ‘ A House for Mr Biswas is as near to perfect as a book gets’
The author on reading John Gray at a time of grief, the joy of Samuel Pepys and and his favourite Thomas Pynchon
July 2015
The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard review – a testament of love during the Holocaust
This novel about Janusz Korczak, who ran an orphanage in the Warsaw ghetto and followed his charges to Treblinka, is a slim masterpiece
November 2014
My hero
My hero: Jim Shepard by Joshua Ferris
The American short-story writer and novelist is the finest living teacher of fiction. His insight is humbling, outrageously perceptive and full of humour
October 2014
Man Booker prize: the six shortlisted authors reveal the story behind the book
From a father's wartime trauma to Italian frescoes to strange family pets – Joshua Ferris, Richard Flanagan, Karen Joy Fowler, Howard Jacobson, Neel Mukherjee and Ali Smith explain what inspired them
May 2014
Holy guacamole: how Joshua Ferris became a born-again foodie
Joshua Ferris grew up eating grey steak and limp lettuce. And then there was light: artisanal pizza, microbreweries, Michelin-starred barbecue. Now he's a believer...
September 2008
The world according to Wallace
David Foster Wallace, a writer considered by many to be the natural heir to Joyce, Pynchon and DeLillo. Here a prominent young American novelist recalls meeting him as a starstruck student reporter says Joshua Ferris
April 2007
Nine to five
Melville's sailors, Hemingway's soldiers and Roth's writers - many of our greatest novels are driven by work. Yet few of us have such romantic occupations. Joshua Ferris goes in search of the workaday world in American literature.
