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DOMINI, JOHN

Mager, N. H.

Mager, S. K.

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Prentice Hall Direct

Bridge is a literature, arts and culture journal published out of Chicago. Our first issue includes works of original fiction, poetry, essays and a number of hybrid forms, including travelogues, and group-composed shorts. For more on Bridge, check out our website, where new, shorter work by Bridge print edition contributors appears weekly. Or almost weekly.

Bridge: Stories and Ideas

Arts & Photography

Workman, Michael

Chernoff, Maxine

Lanier, Chris

Zograf, Aleksandar

Gibbons, Reginald

Pollack, Neal

Maliszewski, Paul

Charles, Bryan

Inez, Colette

Vonnegut, Kurt.

Golus, Carrie

Douglas, Thax

Walzer, Kevin

Badikian, Beatriz

Furtak, Rick

Gaughran, Tracey

Hamilton, Greg

Juros, Jake

Kendrick, Monica

Leick, Karen

Leming, Warren

Newberry, Jim

Purcell, Greg

Sparks, Rennie

Syverson, Ralph

Timberlake, Ben

Timmons, Susan

Trykv, Cheryl

Welch, Patrick

Architecture

Bridge Magazine

This book offers a unique take on the recovery narrative. A damaged but savvy author finds new wholeness by way of a fascinating old city: Naples, Italy. John Domini's exploration of the place -- little known to North Americans, yet rich in culture and challenge -- draws on decades of research, living with local friends and family. His work has appeared previously in the New York Times and elsewhere, and he's published award-winning Neapolitan novels. This memoir will take readers into the back alleys and hidden beaches. It will examine intricacies of both romance and crime, and provide insight into the latest Naples immigrants, African refugees. Overall, Archaeology of a Good Ragù turns the city into a prism that throws its colours across both urban and spiritual experience, everywhere.

The Archeology of a Good Ragù: Discovering Naples, My Father and Myself (36) (GWE Creative Non-Fiction)

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Guernica World Editions

“John Domini is one of those rare writers who doesn’t bend his characters towards his own pre-determined ends, but follows where they lead. In lesser hands, Domini’s people would have been drowned in bathos. But Domini honors them with a generous but unsentimental imagination, giving us lives worth knowing about, layered portrayals of the obdurate world and our own terrifying self-betrayals. His profound, unflinching attention reminds us how closely together fiction, at its best, can unite justice with mercy.”
 ―Jay Cantor
 “John Domini’s densely textured stories teem with compelling inner and outer life. He is a master at capturing the complex workings of minds under stress and the hard-edged negotiations we make with fate when our backs are against a wall. He knows how women and men can behave with one another. The stories move swiftly and sinuously, emerging from the everyday to coil around a reader’s heart.”
 ―Floyd Skloot
 “Fiery, crackling prose. Domini’s writing wields a double-bladed humor that is both fearsomely entertaining and pleasurably dark. Highway Trade is a sharp and compassionate work; unforgettable.”
 ―Diana Abu-Jaber

HIGHWAY TRADE

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Red Hen Press

“John Domini has brilliantly turned one of literary fiction’s neatest tricks: he has vividly and accurately evoked a past time and milieu―the alternative cultural scene of the mid- 70s―and in the process he has illuminated our own times with dazzling clarity. Talking Heads: 77 also manages to be both cutting-edge innovative and splendidly readable. This book is a flat-out delight." ―Robert Olen Butler, author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, Pulitzer Prize in Fiction 1993 “Talking Heads: 77 reminds us of a generation’s crushing loss of idealism. Through an impassioned post-Watergate journalist whose interior angst is articulated in illusory news columns for a fantasized issue of his alternative newspaper, John Domini captures the kind of innocence it once took to believe in our quixotic convictions, to believe we could invoke change, to believe we couldn’t be perverted or corrupted. Simultaneously he recreates the visceral disillusionment that had engulfed many of us by the time the 70’s were over.” ―Cris Mazza, author of Girl Beside Him and Is It Sexual Harassment Yet? “John Domini is fiction’s own Greil Marcus, revealing the secret history that has made us all; in Talking Heads: 77, Kit Viddich is our tour guide, a reporter raking the muck to find the ore, and exploring the cellars, by starlight. The cellars, the basement, the closet, the underground―John Domini knows that the dank oubliettes of our world are the places of darkness and death, and also the wellsprings, the very life of our culture.” ―Brian Bouldrey author of Love, the Magician, The Genius of Desire and the essay collection Monster: Adventures in American Machismo

Talking Heads: 77

This novel a mix of crime, ghost story and portrait of the protagonist continues Domini's tales in contemporary Southern Italy, in the manner of his last novel "Earthquake I.D."

A Tomb on the Periphery

Gival Press, LLC

A witty and sophisticated examination of nontraditional storytelling in contemporary art and literature, The Sea-God's Herb contains reviews and essays on some of the most interesting authors and artists of the last forty years. From William Gass and Thomas Pynchon to Brian Evenson and Steve Erickson, John Domini takes readers beyond that which is "impossible" to explain.John Domini, noted poet, essayist, and author, has had his work appear in the New York Times, GQ, Paris Review, and Ploughshares. A former National Endowment for the Arts and Ingram-Merrill Foundation fellow, he teaches at Iowa State University and lives in Des Moines, Iowa.

The Sea-God's Herb: Reviews and Essays

History & Criticism

Dzanc Books

Movieola is a collection of linked short stories that delights and exploits the language and paraphernalia of industrial Hollywood. The collection delves into a night at the movies, featuring all the familiar types the rom-com, the action-adventure, the superhero and the spy but the narratives are still under construction, and every story line is an opportunity for the unimaginable twist. Motive and identity are constantly shifting in these short stories that offer both narrative and anti-narrative, while the stunted shoptalk of the movie business struggles to keep up. With the wit of Steve Erickson’s Zeroville and the inventive spirit of Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics, John Domini offers a collection at once comical and moving, carefully suspended between a game of language and a celebration of American film.

Movieola

Humor & Satire

"The narrative has its requisite share of mobsters, cops and bloodshed, but for Domini these are mainly pegs upon which to explore Risto’s sense of displacement and belonging. ... Domini’s novel is determined to push the noir―and us―out of well-worn ruts." ―The Washington Post A disastrous earthquake has Naples reeling. While the government scrambles to maintain appearances, poverty and anarchy rack the people on Italy’s margins―the illegal immigrants out of Africa, known as the clandestini. One of whom has just been horrifically murdered. Enter Risto, a rare success story: a refugee from Mogadishu, orphaned in his teens, he’s now married the Neapolitan Paola and is the proprietor of a celebrated art gallery. The murder recalls the deaths of his loved ones years ago in Mogadishu, a trauma Risto can’t outrun. 
 Thinking to force the hand of the white authorities, Risto begins his own investigation. But once he starts playing detective, he quickly gets in over his head. Worse, his digging seems to have brought on a strange hallucination: a golden halo only he can see, like a visionary’s foretelling of death. Everyone he knows, including the woman he loves, seems to brim with secrets; every discovery Risto makes drives him toward an earthquake of his own. 
 A portrait of turmoil inside and out, The Color Inside a Melon explores race and class, belonging and exclusion in one of the world’s ancient cities. Prolific author, critic, and essayist John Domini delivers an unforgettable portrait of humanity’s endless struggle between moving on and making a home.

The Color Inside a Melon

United States

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