I just gave a link to this Gus website page to Google Notebook and … Bang! Fifteen minutes later … it came up with this podcast chat between 2 ‘AI Americans’:
What a lovely surprise! Gus has escaped into the pages of Electric Literature, the online literary journal with the mission to make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive.
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A summary of reviews and reflections on Gus from several Singapore writers updated to the end of July 2024.
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Gus appeared on The Asian Bookshelf podcast and answered questions from presenters, Devika Misra and Tracey Morton on monkeys rampaging around with women’s underwear, the current crises and the need to have more fun.
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On 27 June 2024, Jon appeared on CNA938 with Melanie Oliveiro. He enjoyed chatting with Melanie about Gus, speaking to cockroaches and vacuum cleaners, why Charlie is such a wimp, de-centring male individualistic narratives, and how Gus’s narrative resonates with Jon’s personal story.
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A big thank you to Shawn Hoo for a wonderful 4 Star review of Gus in The Sunday Times on 16 June 2024.
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Jon was featured in Mekong Review’s weekly newsletter in their Quickfire Quintet.
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On 8 June 2024, “Gus: The Life & Opinions of the Last Raffles Banded Langur” was launched in a historic shophouse on Blair Road.
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In June 2024, Jon ran a writing workshop for the Singapore Writers Network on how he wrote Gus using Index Cards, spreadsheets, Scrivener, Word and paper.
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On the 20th of April, authors Balli Kaur Jaswal and Jon Gresham were at Book Bar to talk about their new novels, Now You See Us & Gus: The Life and Opinions of the Last Raffles Banded Langur, and the importance of their settings in Singaporean neighbourhoods.
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Gus: The Life and Opinions of the Last Raffles’ Banded Langur was published on 16 April 2024.
Jon visited Epigram Books at Toa Payoh to sign pre-order copies.
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Jon was on a panel ‘When Nature Calls’ at Singapore Writers Festival 2023 with Esther Vincent and Wu Ming-Yi on 25 November 2023 at 1030am in the Chamber, the Arts House. Here are the ideas he presented on nature and literature.
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“…we were in a pandemic. People were sick. The borders had closed. We were alone. The climate was in crisis. Obviously, I thought why not write an action-packed, dystopian novel that had hi-jinks and hope at its core?”
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