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Greg Ippolito

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in Philadelphia, PA, The United States

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http://gregippolito.net/

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

Influences

Raymond Carver, Andre Dubus, Nick Hornby, Albert Camus

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May 2009

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Greg Ippolito is the author of Zero Station (Coral Press, 2010) — a novel about a Gen-X Jersey teenager/indie rocker who flies off the existential rails during the last three days of the Persian Gulf War (Feb. 1991). It’s scheduled for release later this year. Greg is also the author of the lauded short story, “Wheel of Fortune”, and the provocative essay, “The Death of Cool”.

Greg lives outside Philadelphia, PA, with his wife and two daughters.

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FAR ENOUGH AWAY FROM TROUBLE

New Year’s Eve, 1983.

When I was twelve, my parents took my younger brother and me to Florida for Christmas, for what reason I can’t remember (not DisneyWorld). But, just a short time in, something got stirred up between them, and next thing we knew the car was turned around and heading north again, days early, without explanation, leaving Chris and me in the back seat silently wondering what the f Read more of this blog post »

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	The Death of Cool: An open letter to Generation X 3.68 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2010	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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This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See

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“Back then, things were plainer: less money, no electronic devices, little fashion tyranny, no girlfriends. There was nothing to distract us from our human and filial duty, which was to study, pass exams, use those qualifications to find a job, and then put together a way of life unthreateningly fuller than that of our parents, who would approve, while privately comparing it to their own earlier lives, which had been simpler, and therefore superior. None of this, of course, was ever stated: the genteel social Darwinism of the English middle classes always remained implicit.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

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