Eric LeMay
eric [at] ericlemay [dot] org
Books
Praise
"Eric LeMay's The First 649 Days is a work of breathtaking honesty and heart. LeMay captures life's singular moments—the birth of a child, unexpected illness, mortality—exquisitely, revealing the precarious beauty of our world."
—Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic & Desire
"How to describe a book as profoundly human as The First 649 Days? LeMay's archive of parenthood during a global pandemic reckons with illness, mortality, and the ever-present threat of gun violence, woven into the small moments that comprise the whole of our lives."
—Zoë Bossiere, author of Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir
"Eric LeMay is the future of the essay, but fortunately he's here now. He takes new media and uses those media to show us what the essay can be by remembering what it has been while transforming it into something it has never been. His essays are about bees and babies and randomness. They're all beautiful and unsettling."
—Ned Stuckey-French, author of The American Essay in the American Century
"Eric LeMay's Immortal Milk does for cheese all that ought to be done for cheese: it takes something micro, the history of milk gone bad, and turns it into something macro, the story of how the way we eat becomes the way we live."
—Adam Gopnik, author of Paris to the Moon
"Clearly, [LeMay] is someone who not only celebrates cheese, but also the written word. A cheese lover's delight."
—Domenica Marchetti, The Washington Post
"Eric LeMay writes of his Ohio upbringing—watching Boy George on TV, mythologizing Patient Zero during the AIDS pandemic—with a rare and welcome quietude. Nothing in this book feels amped-up or overblown. I love it."
—John Bresland, author of Zero Station and Other Essays

Eric LeMay is a multimedia, multi-genre, spirit-attuned, nonbinary artist currently in remission from cancer. He has taught writing at Harvard, Columbia, and the University of Chicago. He is on the faculty of the writing program at Ohio University, his alma mater. He is also a host on the New Books Network. He is the author of seven books, and his work has appeared in The Paris Review, Gastronomica, Poetry Daily, the Best Food Writing series, and other venues. He lives in Athens, Ohio.

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