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Miami University Press

A Review of Temper CA by Paul Skenazy

August 26, 2019

Forrest Roth

(Oxford, OH: Miami University Press, 2019) For a familial investigation of self-discovery preferring to simmer instead of boil, Paul Skenazy’s Temper CA, winner of the Miami University Press 2018 Novella Prize, conspicuously decides to extract its choice moments not through … Continued

A Review of Scorpio by Katy Bohinc

August 5, 2019

Lisa Grgas

(Oxford, OH: Miami University Press, 2018) In the spring of 2011, I underwent a tympanoplasty to reconstruct my left eardrum and the bones of my middle ear. I had damaged the ear about a decade earlier while water skiing on … Continued

A Review of MITKO by Garth Greenwell

July 17, 2014

Kate Munning

(Oxford, OH: Miami University Press, 2011) It seems unlikely that a novella with an opening scene involving anonymous sexual encounters between men would turn out to be a fluid, poetic internal monologue on some of the weightiest universal issues out … Continued

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