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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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	Beautiful Soul: An American Elegy 4.27 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2005 — 13 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
	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
	Fourier Series 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2005	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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	Compostition Marble 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2006	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
	SRPR, Spoon River Poetry Review, 42.1, Summer 2017 by Spoon River Poetry Review, Kirstin Hotelling Zona (Editor), Amang (Contributor) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2017	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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	SRPR, Spoon River Poetry Review 37.1. Winter/Spring 2012 by Spoon River Poetry Review, Kirstin Hotelling Zona (Editor, Contributor), Nadine France Martine Pinede (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 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.]

In Kurt Vonnegut’s science-fiction novel Slapstick, the protagonist, a would-be messiah elected President of the United States, institutes as his main and only policy the creation of new family ties between Americans by assigning clusters of them new middle names:

“As I said in my speech,” I told him, “your new middle name would consist of a noun, the name of

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From the Cavern to the Moon: A Journey through the Collection of the Pecci Centre

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