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John Dufresne
(b.1948)John Dufresne is the author of two short story collections, The Way That Water Enters Stone and Johnny Too Bad, two New York Times Notable Books of the Year Louisiana Power & Light and Love Warps the Mind a Little as well as the novels Deep in the Shade of Paradise and Requiem, Mass. His latest novel, No Regrets, Coyote will be published in July.
His books on writing, The Lie That Tells a Truth and Is Life Like This? are used in many university writing programs. John is a professor at Florida International University in Miami and a 2013 Guggenheim Fellow in Fiction.
His books on writing, The Lie That Tells a Truth and Is Life Like This? are used in many university writing programs. John is a professor at Florida International University in Miami and a 2013 Guggenheim Fellow in Fiction.
Genres: Literary Fiction
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Series
Novels
Louisiana Power & Light (1994)
Love Warps the Mind a Little (1997)
Deep in the Shade of Paradise (2002)
Requiem, Mass (2008)
Love Warps the Mind a Little (1997)
Deep in the Shade of Paradise (2002)
Requiem, Mass (2008)
Collections
The Way That Water Enters Stone (1991)
Well Enough Alone (1996)
Johnny Too Bad (2005)
Blue Christmas (2011)
My Darling Boy (2025)
Well Enough Alone (1996)
Johnny Too Bad (2005)
Blue Christmas (2011)
My Darling Boy (2025)
Novellas and Short Stories
Anthologies edited
Plays show
Non fiction show
Books containing stories by John Dufresne
The Best American Mystery Stories 2010 (2010)
(Best American Mystery Stories)
edited by
Lee Child and Otto Penzler
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John Dufresne recommends
Stone Angels (2025)
Helena Rho
"Irresistible . . . Helena Rho gives me what I want from fiction: compassion, provocation, and characters I care about as much a she does. She understands that every story is many stories, and she handles the complex tales of violence, grief, and dire family secrets with intelligence, grace, and courage. You're not going to read many novels as powerful, honest, and authentic as this one."
Beginning with Cannonballs (2020)
Jill McCroskey Coupe
"This lyric novel is a gorgeous mosaic, fragmented in a way that lets the reader into the gaps in order to complete the meaning, to connect the narrative dots. Beginning with Cannonballs reminds me of an Alice Munro story, one that looks at people’s lives over decades, like catching them in snapshots, so we can see how they relate to the people they once were. Jill McCroskey Coupe is one savvy, irresistible, and fearless writer."
The Girl at the End of the Long Dark Night (2018)
(Jimmy Riley, book 3)
Michael Lister
"Tough, violent, and hard-boiled. Will remind you of Raymond Chandler, Graham Greene, and why you started reading crime novels in the first place."
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