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Geoff Wyss’s book of short stories, How, won the Ohio State Fiction Prize. His novel, Tiny Clubs, was published in 2007. Wyss's fiction has appeared in New Stories from the South 2006 and 2009, Tin House, Glimmer Train, Image, and many others. He lives in New Orleans and can be reached at geoffwyss@hotmail.com
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	How really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Glimmer Train Stories, #80 by Geoff Wyss (Goodreads Author), Olufunke Grace Bankole (Goodreads Author), Ken Barris 3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tiny Clubs 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It

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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

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