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Joshua Corey is a novelist, poet, translator, and essayist. A professor of English and creative writing at Lake Forest College, he lives in Evanston, Illinois with his family.

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	The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral (New Series, 48) by Joshua Corey (Goodreads Author) (Editor), G.C. Waldrep (Editor) 4.23 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2012	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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Lonesome No More: Writing and the incoherencies of genre.

[First published August 5, 2021.]

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