About John Addiego

John Addiego has published numerous stories and poems in literary journals and is a former poetry editor at the Northwest Review. Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, he now lives with his wife, Ellen, and daughter, Emily, in Corvallis, Oregon, where he teaches students with special needs. The Islands of Divine Music is his first novel.

From the Pen of John Addiego

The Islands of Divine Music
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The Islands of Divine Music

Against a backdrop of Immigration, Prohibition, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, and the new millennium, the Verbicaro family make their way from Southern Italy to San Francisco to the Yucatan, finding ways to reinvent themselves as each of them brushes up against some aspect of the . . .

Publishing My First Book

I am one of those people who crawls out of bed every morning at five to write before reporting to the paid work that supports a family. I’ve done it for decades, and I know there are thousands of others doing this, my waking sisters and brothers in spirit, perhaps all of us coming out of one...

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