Television
Smile Jamaica – Morning Show
South Florida PBS – Between the Covers
Radio
SiriusXM (Channel 127) – Morning’s with Zerlina
BBC – Front Row
NPR – Fresh Air with Terry Gross
NPR – ‘If I Survive You’ navigates family and identity in the Jamaican diaspora
Podcasts & Event Recordings
The Grotto Podcast – Needing the Fear with Jonathan Escoffery & Celeste Chan
Queens Public Library – Culture Connection
Ursa Story – ‘Under the Ackee Tree’ and Walking Your Own Path
Amerie’s Book Club – April Book Club Interview
Shanz the Book Fairy – Friday Night Lime
Little Atoms – Episode 806
Soho Radio – Rough Trade Book Club (Feb 6, 2023)
The Vulgar Geniuses – Feb 8, 2023
The Write and Wrong Podcast – Ep. 106
Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books – Season 15, Ep. 82
Burned by Books – Episode 70
MFA Writers Podcast – Special Episode! Jonathan Escoffery | Debut Author of If I Survive You
Other People Podcast – Episode 796
Brown Girl Book Lover – Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You!
Chills at Will – Episode 147
Writer’s Bone – Episode 552
First Draft – Jonathan Escoffery on Playing Out Some of His Worst Fears on the Page
The Thoughtful Bro – w/ Jonathan Escoffery
Books Are Pop Culture – Episode 49 | “Jamaicans Are The Best”
Check This Out! – Rachel Barenbaum Interviews Jonathan Escoffery
The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan – Jonathan Escoffery on How Nella Larsen’s Helga Crane Influenced His Debut Collection
Shelf Life – Jonathan Escoffery on tough guys, the joys of ackee, and writing the books we need to see in the world
Debutiful Podcast: Jonathan Escoffery – IF I SURVIVE YOU
Poured Over (The Barnes & Noble Podcast) – Jonathan Escoffery, Yiyun Li and Ling Ma on The Art of Fiction
Print and Digital
The Observer – Jonathan Escoffery: ‘I was trying to write novels aged nine’
Harper’s Bazaar – Jackson Howard and Jonathan Escoffery are Writing the Future
Hazlitt – ‘Sink Back In To What Was Lost’: An Interview with Jonathan Escoffery
The Orange County Register – ‘If I Survive You’ author Jonathan Escoffery on humor, tragedy and coping
Shelf Awareness – Reading with… Jonathan Escoffery
Los Angeles Review of Books – Consciousness of Continuation: A Conversation with Jonathan Escoffery
The Rumpus – To Write The Way We Live: A Conversation With Jonathan Escoffery
San Francisco Chronicle – Immigrants, race and tragedy in Bay Area author Jonathan Escoffery’s ‘If I Survive You’
Electric Literature – A Jamaican American Searches for Identity and Belonging in Miami
Chicago Review of Books – Black Immigrants and the American Dream: An Interview with Jonathan Escoffery on “If I Survive You”
Shondaland – In ‘If I Survive You,’ Jonathan Escoffery Refuses to “Flatten” the Humanity of Jamaican People
Passages North – A Greater Place of Empathy: PN Interviews Fiction Judge Jonathan Escoffery
University of Minnesota’s College of Liberal Arts – Alum Is National Endowment for the Arts Fellow