Jade Sharma

Mourning Jade Sharma, Her Irreverence, Her Audacity

Melissa Mesku Remembers the Author of Problems

Melissa Mesku

February 3, 2020

The night I met Jade Sharma, I saw her verbally shit all over the guest of the evening, Paul Auster, at a literary event in New York. From the back of the audience, she stood and assailed him at length over a minor point related to Beckett. Look, she said witheringly, I studied Beckett. I mean, I’m sure you know stuff—they, like, paid you to come here and talk, but… It was incredibly rude, totally uncalled for. I liked her immediately.