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David Joseph

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David Joseph is a recipient of The Paul Cave Prize for Literature, Next Generation Indie Book Award, Independent Press Award, and other honors.

He is the author of four collections of short fiction, and his writing has been published in The Wall Street Journal, London Magazine, The Smart Set, Litro, and Rattle. A recipient of The John Henry Hobart Fellowship for Ethics and Social Justice, he has taught at Pepperdine University and Harvard University, where he received The Derek Bok Award For Distinction in Teaching.

In 2024, Readers Digest named his book I Didn't Know What To Say, So I Just Said Thanks as one of the 38 Best Short Story Collections of All-Time.
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	The Old Men Who Row Boats and Other Stories 4.24 avg rating — 63 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	I Never Knew How Old I Was really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 23 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Who Among Us?

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The Awakening and Selected Short Stories: Original Classics and Annotated

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Springtime in a Broken Mirror

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Great workbook for learning Spanish! With so many online tools, podcasts, apps, etc. to enhance language today, I was initially very skeptical of this workbook and what it might offer. I wondered what it might provide to make it a compelling choice f ...more
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