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John Domini has won awards in all genres, publishing fiction in Paris Review, Threepenny Review, and elsewhere, journalism and criticism in The New York Times, Bookforum, and elsewhere (including Italian journals). Grants have included an NEA fellowship. The Emerging Writers Network called his novels from '07 and '08, Earthquake I.D. and A Tomb on the Periphery, "back-to-back stunners." In ’09 Tomb was also cited at the London Book Festival among "the best of international publishing," and Earthquake, in Italian translation, was runner-up for the Rea prize. His 2010 essay "Against the 'Impossible to Explain:' the Postmodern Novel & Society," in The Quarterly Conversation, was widely discussed.

Posts by John Domini:

• August 1, 2012 Fifty Gestures of Love, in honor of William Gass (continued)

• August 1, 2012 Fifty Gestures of Love, in honor of William Gass.

• April 15, 2012 The Dividing Line, the Defining Meals: Kafka Sermon Final

• April 12, 2012 The Sister, the Lover, & Skepticism: Kafka Sermon #2

• April 9, 2012 The “Fabulous” vs. the “Struggle:” Kafka Sermon #1

• December 17, 2011 Plensa, ALEXANDRA, alabaster, Des Moines: Best of 2011

• April 25, 2011 Stanley Elkin, ghosting through Boston, beautifully.

• February 2, 2011 Reading @ KGB Bar, Sunday, Feb. 6th.

• January 21, 2011 Dante 2020-6: Tower, Tree, Candle, & the Triumph of the Fragile.

• January 20, 2011 Dante 2020-5: the Intimate Erases the Monolith.

• January 18, 2011 Dante 2020-4: Big Lights & Small Grapple in Paradise.

• January 16, 2011 Dante 2020-3: Cleansing as Carnival, Tree as Anchor.

• January 13, 2011 Dante 2020-2: Nothing so Claustrophobic as a Castle

• January 9, 2011 Dante 2020, or How Does That Guy Get Away with a Fedora?

• November 15, 2010 Spawn of Stevens

• October 25, 2010 Stat & Astonished