Jahn Sood is a musician, writer and art enthusiast hailing from Inman Square in Cambridge, MA.

He was a founding member of Ezra Furman & the Harpoons, but left the group in May of 2008 after two years of strange and glorious bouts of conquest and rock and roll, nearly 200 shows in cities coast to coast and after witnessing the kidnapping and tardy return of his beloved pet goose, it is commonly thought that the Harpoons’s former guitarist simply disappeared.

Several months after his perplexing flight from under the lights, Sood returned with a new prerogative. He has taken it upon himself to revitalize the lost world of the Great American Circus. In the fall of 2008 he produced his folk opera, "The Disappearing Man & Other Sad Songs" with the help of director Brendan Shea and a cast of actors from Harvard's Institute for Advanced Theater Training. The ensemble, the Bright Lights and Burning Nights Old Time Circus & Traveling Roadshow, debuted the play in Cambridge, MA in February 2008 and has since played in New York at the Process Group's Required Reading Series and Boston at the FeverFest09.

As much a reflection on Sood’s experience on tour with the Harpoons as a study in the act of fanfare, this is piece is thought to be a piercing and thought provoking new kind of art. Drawing comparisons to artists as diverse as Bertold Brecht, Tom Waits, Leonoid Andreyev, Bob Dylan and Man Man, Sood’s writing looks face to face with doom and stands defiant towards anything less.

Jahn Sood is also the founder of Cambridge Street Press, publisher and co-editor of the "Inman Review," a new literary magazine to showcase the writing, arts & culture from Inman Square in Cambridge. The first volume of the magazine will be available in October 2009 at bookstores and cafes in Cambridge and Somerville. Please check out the blog section of this page for content teasers, submission guidelines and other information about the "Inman Review."
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