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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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The Islands of Divine Music

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Tears of the Mountain

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The Jaguar Tree

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The Best American Short Stories 2010 by Richard Russo
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Tales of Two Americas by John   Freeman
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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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The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story by John   Freeman
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This was a particularly well-chosen anthology, and reading the stories in the order of presentation (chronological by print dates) gives you a wonderful sense of the ways the art of short fiction has changed as well as remained much the same.
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“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”
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