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D. A. Hosek’s fiction and poetry have Picture of D. A. hosek. The photo is backlit and distorted from being taken a bit too close. Hosek, with a graying beard, glasses and thinning hair, looks to the side. been published here and there. He has an MFA in fiction from the University of Tampa.

He lives and writes in Oak Park, Illinois. He spends his days as a cog in the machinery of corporate America.

Some of his writing-adjacent projects include:

Rejection Wiki
Creative Writing MFA Info pages (including annual rankings of graduate creative writing programs.

In the distant past, he was the editor of Serif: The Magazine of Type & Typography. Despite his best efforts, he tends to be a little precious about typographic niceties.

He’s also occasionally a musician (primarily bass and keyboards but a few other things as well), less so these days than in the past though.

Despite being a four-time college dropout, he managed to end up with degrees from Pitzer College, University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Tampa.

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Richard

14 March 2026

I am doing a Dewey Decimal Project which is for me a part of what I call The Infinite Project. We use the Dewey Decimal system in NZ libraries. What was your aim with this project?

What is 910.45 I cant get it on the online reference. I used to be able to get into those divisions.

I started as I wanted to get more ‘data’ for my writing. I wanted to read into areas I wouldn’t normally.

Be good if you could send a message. All the best in any case. Richard T

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1. D. A. Hosek
  
  23 March 2026
  
  My original plan was to do a sort of gonzo-experiential non-fiction book akin to the sort of thing that A. J. Jacobs did, but I decided what I was doing and how I was doing it was going to be too boring to be worth writing as a book, so instead it was just a chance to get a broad sampling of books across the spectrum of human knowledge.
  
  910.45 is, I believe pirates and piracy or something along those lines, but I couldn’t find a formal CIP block for the book anywhere online to see the official main subject heading for the book.
  
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