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Interview: Jason Mott on His Favorite Books and His New Novel, ‘People Like Us’

New York Times 08 Aug 2025
This “huge” fan of the writer (and of Nicolas Cage) says he “pretty much hated” “The Passenger” and “Stella Maris.” His own new novel is “People Like Us.” ... .
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Why National Book Award winner Jason Mott keeps writing Nicolas Cage into his novels

Usatoday 06 Aug 2025
Jason Mott may have found the cure for male loneliness ... Cage is an apt metaphor for “People Like Us” (out now from Dutton), which often blends the real Jason Mott with a fictionalized version of himself ... Jason Mott started writing a memoir.
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Book Review: ‘People Like Us,’ by Jason Mott

New York Times 05 Aug 2025
In “People Like Us,” Jason Mott tells a darkly comic tale of two Black writers haunted by gun violence ... .
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Book Review: Jason Mott’s ‘People Like Us’ explores the struggles of semi-fame and American identity

Wtop 04 Aug 2025
How does one follow up writing “A Hell of a Book” that wins the National Book Award? If you’re Jason Mott, you write a sort-of, not-really, by all legal terms fictionalized — according to the forward ...
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