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“A year or so later, Professor Dixon retired from his nearly 30 year teaching tenure at JHU.”
“Some years later, almost just as astonishingly, Stephen Dixon and I became pen pals.”
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“Professor Dixon’s emails were just like his fiction writing—intimate and full of quotidian details.”
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“Stephen Dixon’s prose is as ordinary and intimate as reading someone’s shopping list.”
“Soon after that, teary-eyed and panicked, a second semester senior on the brink of graduation, I barged into the office of my poetry professor, Mary Jo Salter, begging her to tell me what to do with a degree in what my pre-med friends affectionately dubbed “pre-unemployment”.”
“, and Goodbye to Goodbye by Stephen Dixon are available from McSweeney’s.”
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“In his kind and understated manner, he quietly urged us to find the poignancy in the everyday.”
“His work is a beautiful, and urgent, reminder of the poignancy of life’s smallest moments.”
“Dixon has this distinct way of portraying universally human moments, and I loved the years I spent toggling between reading his published and unpublished works, and receiving his emails.”
“She said: “Find a publishing house.” I’m pretty sure I responded with: “What’s that?” Miraculously, a year after graduation I managed to eke my way into a publicity assistant cubicle at the Knopf Doubleday group of Random House (now Penguin Random House).”
“I was many years from becoming a parent when I first read this story, but loved it even then.”