John Domini

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June 09

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John Domini has won awards in all genres, publishing fiction in Paris Review and Ploughshares, and non-fiction in GQ and The New York Times, and elsewhere. The Times praised his early stories as "dreamlike… grabs hold of both reader and character," and Richard Ford called his ’07 novel, Earthquake I.D., "wonderful… a rich feast." In 2016, J.C. Hallman hailed his latest, MOVIEOLA!, as "a new shriek for a new century." A 2014 selection of criticism, The Sea-God's Herb, was termed "poetic" and "fascinating," in Publishers Weekly. Domini has won an NEA fellowship, taught at Harvard, Northwestern, and elsewhere, and held visiting-artist positions in Italy.
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Average rating: 4.18 · 176 ratings · 72 reviews · 17 distinct works
A Tomb on the Periphery

4.69 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions
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Movieola

3.81 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions
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Earthquake I.D.

3.96 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions
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The Color Inside a Melon

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Talking Heads: 77

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions
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The Sea-God's Herb: Reviews...

4.62 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions
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The Archeology of a Good Ra...

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Bedlam: Short Stories

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HIGHWAY TRADE

4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions
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The Grand McLuckless Road A...

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions
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John John said: " Splendid work, varied & thoughtful as ever -- though in the interests of full disclosure, I've got to note that one of the longer pieces in here is my own. ...more "

 
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John John said: " 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. ...more "

 
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Deeply researched & informative when it comes medicine & money, but more importantly alert to the subtleties of the heart, J.C. Hallman’s latest book strikes me as a masterpiece of revisionist history. The Anarcha of the title is a slave woman out of ...more
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Donald Barthelme
“The death of God left the angels in a strange position.”
Donald Barthelme

James Joyce
“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.”
James Joyce, Ulysses

Henry James
“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.”
Henry James, The Middle Years
tags: art

Italo Calvino
“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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Vladimir Nabokov
“Let all of life be an unfettered howl.”
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Majenta Hello, John! Thank you for contacting me! I hope you are keeping safe and well and having a great week. Congratulations on your books! Happy reading, writing, and everything else. Blessings!
Best wishes from Majenta


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John Thanks a lot, Steven. Pleased to meet you.


Steven Godin Thanks John, pleased to make your acquaintance. Fantastic you have received Praise from Richard Ford, one of America's finest.


message 6: by John

John Grazie, Stefania, amica!


Stefania stefania Ciao, felice di ritrovarti


message 4: by M (last edited Jan 02, 2010 04:37AM)

M Cher John,
Bonne et Heureuse Année 2010 !


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Ali Marsman 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 :)


Bradley Thank you for adding me as a friend John! =)

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