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John Domini
Goodreads Author
Born
in New York City, The United States
June 09
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a bunch, everyone from Dante to Donald Barthelme.
Member Since
December 2007
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/johndomini
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A Tomb on the Periphery
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2008
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Movieola
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2016
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Earthquake I.D.
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2007
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The Color Inside a Melon
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Talking Heads: 77
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2003
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The Sea-God's Herb: Reviews and Essays
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2014
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The Archeology of a Good Ragù: Discovering Naples, My Father and Myself (36) (GWE Creative Non-Fiction)
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Bedlam: Short Stories
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HIGHWAY TRADE
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1998
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The Grand McLuckless Road Atlas
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2013
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The latest issue of the long-honored annual, from the perspicacious editors Peabody & Ebersole. My story "Blinded By Paparazzi" couldn't ask for a better home, at once congenial & rowdy. My thanks & my continuing compliments.
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"Simone, by Angel Berry, is set in a context that is historically as well as geographically charged: the year is 1930, and the place is Louisiana. As the book description underlines, the conflicts are not clearly racial, but rather based on a peculiar"
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If it matters, I also wrote about this book for THE BROOKLYN RAIL. Some pieces of that review were cannibalized for this one.
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| The spell cast by SWING TIME strikes me as a career peak-- & that alone is saying a lot-- as well as a steep & bracing challenge for any of the gifted Ms. Smith's contemporaries. The narrative itself sets a challenge, swinging back & forth across the ...more | |
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| Though this novel amounts finally to a miraculous cleansing, a rediscovery of love, its protagonist is a haunted, driven man, burdened by the nightmare he helped to inflict: the torture of innocent Afghans, as a prion guard with the US forces. His na ...more | |
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| “Happiness,” around the Sorrentino family, “was something the smart money wasted no time pursuing.” Certainly, the clan was smart; both father & son, Gilbert & Christopher, carved out distinguished literary careers. Yet the mother held her own around ...more | |
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| A splendid collection, enlivening both Ancient Rome & a very special visitor, rich with mediations that never lack for playfulness, despite their profundity, & eye-popping for its refined effects, particularly Arvio's rare ear for assonance & consona ...more | |
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| This novel’s excellent, but first impressions are weird: MESSIAHS does without paragraphs & keeps its blocks of fine prose compressed, full of poetic repetitions. At first riffle it appears “experimental” except the word seems to mean less and less. ...more | |
"In this frightening, isolated time, let me direct you to War and Peace. People resist this book - they do it because it's something of a punch line as a monolithic, difficult novel. But this is one of the frothiest soap operas of a novel that I know "
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“The death of God left the angels in a strange position.”
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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.”
― Ulysses
― Ulysses
“We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.”
― The Middle Years
― The Middle Years
“Whether there is such a thing as Reality, of which the various levels are only partial aspects, or whether there are only levels, is something that literature cannot decide. Literature recognizes rather the *reality of the levels.* ”
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“Let all of life be an unfettered howl.”
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Thanks John, pleased to make your acquaintance. Fantastic you have received Praise from Richard Ford, one of America's finest.
Cher John,Bonne et Heureuse Année 2010 !
Hi John!Your website is amazing; very impressive what you have been able to achieve with your work!
CONGRATULATIONS on your success and the awards given to you for your work...you are admired!
Sincerely,
Ali :)
Good to see you here, John! So glad you've enjoyed some of our books. Check out our fall lineup when you get a chance: http://unbridledbooks.com/catalog.htm...Cheers!
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Best wishes from Majenta