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currently-reading (3)
to-read (0)
american-novels-that-matter (10)
fine-strange-foreign (5)
avatars--gods--energy-sources (3)
fiction-bruised---trembling (2)
thorny---lovely-poetry (2)
raw-hunks (2)
short-story-masters (2)
political-fiction--central-america (1)
John's friends (29)
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Ben 105 books 547 friends |
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William 282 books 261 friends |
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Matt 1066 books 159 friends |
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Michelle 469 books 29 friends |
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Bernadette 351 books 47 friends |
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Erika 53 books 50 friends |
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Christy 1404 books 70 friends |
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Jeffrey 527 books 124 friends |
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Daniel Grandbois 115 books 1009 friends |
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Kristen 60 books 24 friends |
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Kevin 678 books 529 friends |
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Suzanne 932 books 440 friends |
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Mahsa 340 books 539 friends |
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literanista 270 books 78 friends |
John Dominiauthor profile |
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| url | http://www.goodreads.com/profile/JohnDomini | |||||||||||||||
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| born | June 30, 1951 | |||||||||||||||
| gender | male | |||||||||||||||
| place of birth | New York City, United States | |||||||||||||||
| website | http://www.johndomini.com | |||||||||||||||
| genre | Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Travel | |||||||||||||||
| influences | a bunch, everyone from Dante to Donald Barthelme. | |||||||||||||||
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about this author
John Domini has won awards in all genres, publishing fiction in Paris Review, Ploughshares, and anthologies, and non-fiction in GQ, The New York Times, and elsewhere, including Italian journals. The New York Times has praised his work as "dreamlike… grabs hold of both reader and character," and Alan Cheuse, of NPR's "All Things Considered," described it as "witty and biting." Domini's ‘03 novel, Talking Heads: 77, was acclaimed by Robert Olen Butler as "both cutting-edge innovative and splendidly readable," while Richard Ford called his ’07 novel, Earthquake I.D., "wonderful… a rich feast." Earthquake I.D. was also nominated for a Pulitzer and earned a four-star review on the Emergin...more |
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upcoming events
event: An Evening with Iowa Authors
date: August 22, 2008 07:00PM location: Barnes & Noble, 4550 University Ave. , West Des Moines, IA, United States description: Book signing, meet-&-greet, refreshments. books by John Dominicombine editionsavg rating: 4.60 | 10 ratings | 6 distinct works
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John is currently reading
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07/10
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Koolaids: The Art of War (Hardcover) by Rabih Alameddine bookshelves: currently-reading, fiction-bruised---trembling |
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recommended to John by:
I think I was sent a copy by the publisher
recommended for: readers who like a laugh & a challenge read in July, 2008 
John said:
"In KOOLAIDS, the visual artist Rabih Alameddine demonstrates such brave open-ended form, along with such flinty discernment in his references both literary & historical, that I may wind up adding a fifth star to my review, once I finish the book...more
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05/25
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My Antonia (Paperback) by Willa Cather bookshelves: currently-reading |
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recommended to John by:
read it to teach it
recommended for: who care about American literature read in April, 2008
John said:
"My latest encounter with a masterwork -- a novel I just completed in order to teach, and one that seduced me wonderfully and quite unexpectedly. Cather's Nebraska story goes over ground that's never much mattered to me, Midwestern farm country. Yet...more
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03/06
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Safe Suicide by Dewitt Henry bookshelves: currently-reading |
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recommended to John by:
Red Hen Press
recommended for: thoughtful friends, adults or getting there read in February, 2008
John said:
"Dewitt Henry's penetrating and altogether magnificent SAFE SUICIDES stands head and shoulders above the current glut of memoirs (some of them slipped into that vague pillowcase, "creative non-fiction"). Henry gives his brief but substantiv...more
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John's recent updates (rss)
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Tests of Time: Essays (Paperback) by William H. Gass bookshelves: penetrating-criticism |
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recommended to John by:
just picked it up & read it
recommended for: adults who think, read, & savor read in November, 2002
John said:
"Someday, I expect, the essays of William Gass will be culled for a single exemplary volume, in a generous selection. As of now, this compendium seems to me the most significant & memorable overall. THE WORLD WITHIN THE WORD has the groundbreaki...more
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The Open Door (Paperback) by Floyd Skloot bookshelves: fiction-bruised---trembling |
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I saw an ad, publicity, something
recommended for: readers who like a laugh & a challenge read in September, 1997
John said:
"Skloot has achieved fame, for his splendid essays about his struggle with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, as well as for his poetry. He deserves all the acclaim both forms of writing have brought him, to be sure. For Goodreads, however, I prefer to singl...more
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The Complete Stories (Paperback) by Franz Kafka bookshelves: avatars--gods--energy-sources |
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recommended to John by:
first, probably a teacher
recommended for: readers who want to know the world in its noisy entirety read in August, 2008
John said:
"The recent so-called scandalous revelations about Kafka's personal library (as if -- turns out he read a slightly edgy quarterly of arts & literature) prompt me to say something about his work. For my Goodreads list, I suppose it must be this bo...more
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New comment on Michelle's review of
Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic (Dover Books on Western Philosophy)
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John said "yes" to attending the event: New Interview / Review. date: August 07, 2008 06:28PM location: The Providence Phoenix, 150 Chestnut Street, Providence, RI, United States description: Inviting you all to read an interview and review of Without Wax in The Providence Phoenix this week. INTERVIEW / REVIEW John said: Congratulations, & smartly donbe. | |||
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John
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Elizabeth's
review of The Gift (Penguin Modern Classics):
" Brilliant, layered - the best for me is the contrast between the idyllic remembered childhood (a sensual memory like no other), and the historical sort-of novel within the novel, about Chernyshevsky. Of course it's Nabokov's way of confronting the...more " | |||
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John
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"Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read, seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot. Snotgreen, bluesilver, rust: coloured signs. Limits of the diaphane. But he adds: in bodies. Then he was aware of them bodies before of them coloured. How? By knocking his sconce against them, sure. Go easy. Bald he was and a millionaire, MAESTRO DI COLOR CHE SANNO. Limit of the diaphane in. Why in? Diaphane, adiaphane. If you can put your five fingers through it it is a gate, if not a door. Shut your eyes and see." — James Joyce | |||
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Dubliners (World's Classics) by James Joyce bookshelves: avatars--gods--energy-sources, short-story-masters |
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recommended to John by:
a teacher, probably
recommended for: readers who want to know the world in its noisy entirety read in September, 1969
John said:
"Brilliant and encyclopedic as James Joyce was -- the artist who, more than any other, hauled the ancient storytellers' calling to distill an entire culture into the 20th Century -- his work in prose began with this subdued, sequenced exercise in urba...more
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Old Floating Cloud: Two Novellas (Paperback) by Xue Can bookshelves: fine-strange-foreign |
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recommended to John by:
I received it for review
recommended for: readers who like a challenge read in February, 1984
John said:
"The Chinese fantasist Can Xue brought off these fictions, somehow, during the last decade or so of Mao's iron-fisted regime. To Western eyes, at least, these disorderly impossible conjunctions, in which intimacy suffers insect infestation and, in on...more
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John's favorite quotes
"Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read, seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot. Snotgreen, bluesilver, rust: coloured signs. Limits of the diaphane. But he adds: in bodies. Then he was aware of them bodies before of them coloured. How? By knocking his sconce against them, sure. Go easy. Bald he was and a millionaire, MAESTRO
DI COLOR CHE SANNO. Limit of the diaphane in. Why in? Diaphane, adiaphane. If you can put your five fingers through it it is a gate, if not a door. Shut your eyes and see."
— James Joyce (Ulysses)
DI COLOR CHE SANNO. Limit of the diaphane in. Why in? Diaphane, adiaphane. If you can put your five fingers through it it is a gate, if not a door. Shut your eyes and see."
— James Joyce (Ulysses)
"The death of God left the angels in a strange position."
— Donald Barthelme
— Donald Barthelme
John's groups (recent posts)
Interviews - New Authors
— 172 members
— last activity 3 days ago, 03:38PM
When I'm not working, writing or reading, I interview new authors for my blog--Emerge New Authors.
http://jenniferprado.blogspot....
If ...more
The No "No Duh" Group
— 22 members
— last activity 28 days ago, 05:48AM
This is a group where stupid and vapid are left at the door. It is for guided general discussions, meaning, no general drivel or pointltess ramblings....more
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