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John Addiego has published three novels and numerous stories and poems in literary journals. He is a former teacher and poetry editor at the Northwest Review. Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, he now lives with his wife Ellen in Corvallis, Oregon.

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The Islands of Divine Music

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Tears of the Mountain

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The Jaguar Tree

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Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott
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Abbott is very talented, especially in the way she explores dark, psychological subjects. I wasn't as taken by this one as the others I've read (she's prolific!), but I was drawn in, and I needed to see how it ended. The main character in this has a ...more
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I read a great short story by Ostlund and found her novel soon after. She has an amazing ability to evoke both pathos and humor, and in each story there's a keen sense of being a misfit in one's own rural hometown. In this novel a boy suffers tremend ...more
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What About the Baby? by Alice McDermott
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I love McDermott's novels, and I was surprised to find how much I loved her thoughts about writing, especially as it links to faith and those deeper channels of art and Truth with a capital T, as well. Her aesthetic sense is remarkable; the examples ...more
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The Best American Short Stories 2024 by Lauren Groff
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Great selection! Inspired me to seek out a few writers I'd never heard of before. Groff's intro was nice as well--she's a shining light. ...more
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Great selection! Inspired me to seek out a few writers I'd never heard of before. Groff's intro was nice as well--she's a shining light. ...more
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This is a unique and amazing family saga about places and people of whom I've known very little: Koreans who, because of war and occupation, emigrate to Japan in the first half of the twentieth century. It reads like a 19th century British or America ...more
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Frank Zappa
“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”
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