Jared Yates Sexton
Sexton gives an author talk atPolitics and Prose in 2023
Born	(1981-10-07)October 7, 1981 (age 44)
Alma mater	Indiana State University, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Jared Yates Sexton (born October 7, 1981) is an American author andpolitical commentator fromLinton, Indiana. He was an associate professor in the Department of Writing and Linguistics atGeorgia Southern University.

Sexton grew up in southern Indiana. He studied English and Creative Writing atIndiana State University, and later received hisMFA in Creative Writing fromSouthern Illinois University in 2008.

Sexton previously taught Creative Writing atBall State before accepting a position at Georgia Southern University, where he was a tenuredAssociate Professor of Creative Writing, as recently as 2022.^[1]

Sexton is the author of three short story collections:An End to All Things (Atticus Books),The Hook and the Haymaker (Split Lip Press), andI Am the Oil of the Engine of the World (Split Lip Press), as well as acrime novel,Bring me the Head of Yorkie Goodman (New Pulp Press), written under thepseudonym Rowdy Yates.

His work has been published inTime Magazine^[2],The New York Times,The New Republic,Salon,Paste,Southern Humanities Review, PANK, and inHobart.

In April 2015, Sexton started covering the2016 U.S. presidential election, attending multiple rallies for both major candidates and writing regular articles forAtticus Review^[3][4] in his columnAtticus on the Trail.^[5] He covered theCharleston shooting^[6] and trail of church burnings in the South.^[7] He has written forTime Magazine,The New York Times,Salon and theNew Republic.^[8]

In the summer of 2016, Sexton went to another Trump rally in South Carolina, and reported on the behavior he observed there. His live tweets of the event soon went viral^[9] and garnered him national attention,^[10] which included frequent death threats.^[11] He later wrote about the experience^[12] and became a regular contributor toThe New Republic andThe New York Times.^[13]

In December 2016, Sexton was a guest political commentator^[14] onThe Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell onMSNBC, as well as on various radio programs, includingKCRW.^[15]

Sexton also authors an independent publication onSubstack entitled "Dispatches from a Collapsing State".^[16]

Sexton is a co-host ofThe Muckrake Podcast, a semi-weekly political analysis podcast on the CLNS media network.^[17][18]

• An End to All Things: Stories^[19] Atticus Books (December 21, 2012)ISBN 978-0692387566
• Bring Me the Head of Yorkie Goodman^[20] (as Rowdy Yates) New Pulp Press (February 19, 2015)ISBN 978-0692387566
• The Hook and the Haymaker Split Lip Press (January 5, 2015)ISBN 978-0990903529
• I Am the Oil of the Engine of the World Split Lip Press (February 23, 2016)ISBN 978-0990903567
• The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters on Your Shore: A Story of American Rage^[21] (September 12, 2017)ISBN 978-1619029569.^[22]
• The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making (May 7, 2019)ISBN 978-1640093850^[23][24]
• American Rule: How A Nation Conquered The World But Failed Its People Dutton/Penguin-Random House (September 15, 2020)ISBN 9781524745714^[25][26]
• The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis, Penguin-Random House (Jan 17, 2023)^[27][28][29]ISBN 9780593185230

• "American Horror Story,"The New Republic, June 2016.^[12]
• "Is the Trump Campaign Just a Giant Safe Space for the Right?",The New York Times, July 2016.^[13]
• "Donald Trump's Toxic Masculinity,"The New York Times, October 2016.^[30]
• "Hillbilly sellout: the politics of J.D. Vance'sHillbilly Elegy are already being used to gut the working poor,"Salon, March 2016.^[31]

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