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"John D'Agata is an alchemist who changes trash into purest gold." ―Guy Davenport, Harper's
John D'Agata journeys the endless corridors of America's myriad halls of fame and faithfully reports on what he finds there. In a voice all his own, he brilliantly maps his terrain in lists, collage, and ludic narratives. With topics ranging from Martha Graham to the Flat Earth Society, from the brightest light in Vegas to the artist Henry Darger, who died in obscurity, Halls of Fame hovers on the brink between prose and poetry, deep seriousness and high comedy, the subject and the self.
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"A daring, utterly original book by a young writer of rare intelligence and artistry. In Halls of Fame, John D’Agata sniffs out the quirky corners of our culture and makes them revelatory. With wit and finesse, and writing that’s as much poetry as it is prose, John D’Agata is redefining the modern American essay." -- Annie Dillard
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"John D’Agata is pushing the envelope of the modern American essay. A maximalist’s intellectual curiosity collides with a minimalist’s austere lyricism to produce results that are novel, intriguing, and haunting." -- Phillip Lopate
"John D’Agata’s journey through genres, the American landscape, the history of thought, and the history of lyric action – a journey beautifully agonized over as he struggles between sentence and line – is the beginning of a journey for us as well with a voice that is changing our conversation with the world." -- Jorie Graham
"‘He had a knack, which was his lure, for both the mundane and fantastic’ – so says John D’Agata about one of his book’s eccentric population, but he could be describing his own omnivorous self. His writing is marked by an exuberance of structural invention, by an ever-churning hurdy-gurdy lexicon of lingual play, and by citizenship in the mazes of the mind and in hallways that mimic Ripley’s Believe It Or Not. Or, to update that last comparison: Halls of Fame is to essays what the Museum of Jurassic Technology is to gallery dioramas." -- Albert Goldbarth
John D'Agata was born in 1974 on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he holds M.F.A.s in both nonfiction and poetry and is currently editor of lyric essays for Seneca Review. He lives in New England.
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