James Vescovi was a writer/editor for 25 years before changing careers and becoming a teacher. Some of his favorites books/authors are Crime & Punishment (Dostoyevsky), The First Man (Camus), The New Man (Merton), The Assault (Mulisch), Bridge over the Drina (Andric), Macbeth (we all know who), Death Comes for the Archbishop (Cather), The Ocean (Hanley), and British poet David Jones masterpiece about WWI, In Parenthesis.

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