Paola Corso is the recipient of the 2000 Sherwood Anderson Fiction Prize and was nominated for a Pushcart Press Editors’ Book Award. She is a New York Foundation for the Arts poetry fellow and author of a book of poems Death by Renaissance. A native of the Pittsburgh area, she now lives in Brooklyn and teaches fiction in New York City.

“Giovanna’s 86 Circles is an appealing gathering of short fiction at a time when American culture is changing radically. Corso's characters are Old World people vulnerable to the assault of contemporary capitalism, but dreaminess relieves the stresses of their lives. Her prose is inviting in its clarity and music as she creates a world that is at once familiar and strange. Corso’s debut collection is at the same level of literary achievement as Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies and Junot Diaz’s Drown.”—David Huddle, author of The Story of a Million Years

"With her swift and gritty sentences, Corso conjures a world where houses were painted gray since the mill soot would turn them that color anyway, where Jell-O and pineapple salad stood for dessert. It was a humble if pinched society, down on its luck but at least rich in tradition. Corso honors that fact in Giovanna's 86 Circles, and then some." -Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"Corso's strong ethnic narratives in Giovanna's 86 Circles are remniscent of those by Toni Morrison."-Pittsburgh Magazine

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Contents
Yesterday's News	000
Between the Sheets	000
Nose-Dive		000
Unraveled		000
Giovanna's 86 Circles		000
Freezer Burn		000
Raw Egg in Beer	000
The Drying Corner	000
Roman Arches		000
Shelf Life		000

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