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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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100 Years of the Best American Short Stories (The Best American Series)

by Lorrie Moore

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Insightful pieces, especially by Munoz, Russell, and Solnit. Since this dealt primarily with homelessness and inequality as perceived as a crisis when these articles were published a dozen years ago, it was very painful to consider how much worse it' ...more
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