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    “You may think you’ve read enough stories about penniless gay clowns who can’t get over the loss of a dog, but – I assure you – you have not. John Jodzio is the best kind of modern fiction writer: a thematic traditionalist who feels totally new.” – Chuck Klosterman, author of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs   A middle-aged masochist in love with a comatose man. A gay birthday clown lamenting the loss of his beloved dog. An amateur veterinarian keeping watch over his suicidal daughter. And a bikini model with a barnacle stuck to her rear. These are just a few of the characters who populate the quirky, offbeat world of If You Lived Here You’d Already Be Home, a world that feels at once alien and strangely familiar. Jodzio is by turns bleak and hopeful, cruel and tender; his new collection is one exciting literary debut.   John Jodzio is a winner of the Loft-McKnight Fellowship. His stories have appeared in One Story, Opium, The Florida Review and Rake Magazine. He's won a Minnesota Magazine fiction prize and both the Opium 500 Word Memoir competion and Opium Fiction Prize.   “…colorful and seemingly fractured tales, each shining brilliantly alone, but also growing more vibrant as one story lays over another. Together they form an intricately stained glass window that looks out onto a whole new world.” – Hannah Tinti, author of The Good Thief. Joining Jodzio this evening is Chelsea Martin, the author of Everything Was Fine Until Whatever and The Funny Thing About Apathy. Visit her: www.jerkethics.com.