About Joshua Corey
Lovers of books, especially historical fiction, especially especially Patrick O’Brian’s historical fiction, as well as movies, comics, poetry, criticism, autocriticism, a bit of fiction, a bit of poetry, and toasted cheese will likely like this sort of thing.
Who am I?
Joshua Corey is a poet, critic, translator and novelist whose latest novel, The Last Words of Jack Ruby, is forthcoming in November 2026 from Tortoise Books. Other recent books include How Long Is Now, a novel; Hannah and the Master, a metapoetic masque on the love affair between Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger, and The Transcendental Circuit: Otherworlds of Poetry, a collection of critical writings. He lives in Evanston, Illinois with his family and teaches English at Lake Forest College.
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