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Joe Mungo Reed was born in London and raised in Gloucestershire, England. He has a master’s in philosophy and politics at the University of Edinburgh and an MFA in creative writing at Syracuse University, where he won the Joyce Carol Oates Award in Fiction. He is the author of the novel, We Begin Our Ascent, and his short stories have appeared in VQR and Gigantic and anthologized in Best of Gigantic. He is currently living in Edinburgh, UK.

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	We Begin Our Ascent 3.56 avg rating — 1,103 ratings — published 2018 — 18 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
	Terrestrial History 3.97 avg rating — 915 ratings — published 2025 — 5 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
	Hammer 3.42 avg rating — 166 ratings — published 2022 — 7 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
	Underground: Tales for London by Ann Bissell (Editor), Matthew Plampin (Contributor), Joanna Shriver (Contributor) 3.17 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 2018 — 7 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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“We are ordinary in our graveness, our desolation. Some hope in that, perhaps. The question is not how to do what is remarkable, as it has been for so long, but to do what is sufficient, to know what is enough.”
― Joe Mungo Reed, We Begin Our Ascent

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“A life is not an equation, I tell myself. I tell myself; not a thing made or broken by its end.”
― Joe Mungo Reed, Terrestrial History

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“Malevich didn't mean to put himself at the center. He said, 'Art doesn't need us and it never has.'"
"He's speaking for art like a ventriloquist with a dummy." Marina laughs. "He has his hand up art's ass.”
― Joe Mungo Reed, Hammer

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