User:Jim Correale

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Jim Correale (born November 7, 1962, Boston) has lived most of his life in the neighborhood of East Boston, but recently relocated to Maine, as he always knew he would. A graduate of Suffolk University with a degree in journalism, Correale has always dabbled in various types of writing, including poetry and fiction, essays and letters, songs and journals. For a year he contributed a column to an East Boston weekly newspaper.

Correale worked at the Salesian Boys & Girls Club in East Boston for 13 years. From there he went to teach English for five years at his alma mater, Savio High School, also in his neighborhood. Since then, Correale spent a year living in Somerville and another in central Massachusetts. In late 2004 he relocated to Portland, Maine, where he works as a reporter for Current Publishing, which puts out several suburban weekly newspapers.

An anarchist atheist, Correale is disillusioned by much of Western society and is intrigued by the idea of living a self-sufficient life in the woods of New England. He has been influenced by the writings of Henry David Thoreau, Wendell Berry, and Helen and Scott Nearing.

After discovering Wikipedia, Correale has attempted to write entries on subjects he is knowledgeable about and so far has penned pieces on the neighborhood of East Boston, the William Faulkner novel As I Lay Dying, the Ani DiFranco album Not A Pretty Girl, Boston's Suffolk University, actress Sarah Polley, filmmaker Atom Egoyan, the Wilfred Owen poem "Dulce Et Decorum Est," the novelist Cormac McCarthy, and the study of the Grail legend From Ritual to Romance.