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Tom Ipri

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Tom Ipri is a mid-career librarian, mid-life person, writer, reader, film buff, photographer, and food and drink enthusiast living and working in Philadelphia, PA.

His short stories have appeared in Monday Night, Ayris Magazine, Compose: A Journal of Simply Good Writing, The Casserole, Contraposition, and The Penmen Review.

In addition to his fiction, Tom has had poetry published in Small Brushes, Superior Poetry News and The Vermillion Literacy Project.
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Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America

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Quotes by Tom Ipri (?)

“Verisimilitude is not my ambition. Everything I do is façade.”
― Tom Ipri, King's Long Search

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Tom’s Quotes

“Verisimilitude is not my ambition. Everything I do is façade.”
― Tom Ipri, King's Long Search

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“Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner: Early Stories

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