Do Something! Do Something! Do Something!

Do Something! Do Something! Do Something!

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Fiction. In this fragmented, nontraditional narrative, debut author Joseph Riippi explores the aftermath of stories, rather than simply telling them: A music critic chants Susan Sontag quotes in a mental institution; a young girl looks to her starfish tattoo for regrowth; a disenchanted playwright flees divorce and human shrapnel. DO SOMETHING! DO SOMETHING! DO SOMETHING!...more
Paperback, 177 pages
Published July 17th 2009 by Ampersand Books
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Joseph Riippi is the author of A CLOTH HOUSE and TREESISTERS, both forthcoming 2012. His other books include THE ORANGE SUITCASE (2011) and DO SOMETHING! DO SOMETHING! DO SOMETHING! (2009). He lives with his wife in New York City.
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