Jasper Jones: Reviews & Interviews

"Jasper Jones began as a name that wouldn't let me go. I tried, but I couldn't shrug it away, and it began to occupy my thoughts at a time when they should have been elsewhere. I was in the midst of a slow moving second novel and living my own private sophomore slump. In short, I was panicking."

A podcast of an interview with Craig Silvey (12.41 mins)

"Novelists don’t always choose their subjects; sometimes an idea will arrive unbidden and decide to stay. And there’s nothing a writer can do about it."

"Jasper Jones is a novel that deals with so many different issues and themes ranging from truth and lies, to stereotypes and assumptions, to the cruelty of humankind. Its literary quality is apparent in the universality of these themes and issues."