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Bloom has also written several books of humor and film criticism and hosted television shows as his alter ego, joe. Read evidence of love a true story of passion and death in the suburbs by john bloom available from rakuten kobo. At several points i had to check the books publishing data to make sure i wasnt reading fiction so unbelievable was this tale of housewives, texas churches and murder. The founding editor of d, the magazine of dallas, he has contributed to esquire, gourmet, gq, texas monthly, and the new york times, among other publications.
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