When I arrived at the Syracuse MFA program, I heard a lot about Alexander Sammartino. He was, apparently, a former Arizona high school football star, an amateur bodybuilder, an otherworldly reader, and a prodigious cigarette smoker (he’s since quit). Although he’d already graduated, a former professor put us in touch and we bonded over books, sports, and being Italian. A half-decade later, the rest, as they say, is history.
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