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Jo Ann Beard

The Boys of My Youth

The Boys of My Youth

A collection of autobiographical essays by Jo Ann Beard

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    “The Fourth State of Matter. Oh. Every essay, every sentence, every word. I once tracked down an old issue of a journal just to own a Jo Ann Beard essay that was printed in it. The essay is called Werner and you can find it in her second essay collection Festival Days. You should actually.”

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