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Mike Scalise

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Born

Pittsburgh, The United States

Website

https://www.mikescalise.me/

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Genre

Memoir, Fiction

Member Since

February 2016

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Mike Scalise is the author of THE BRAND NEW CATASTROPHE (Sarabande Books, 2017), which received the 2014 Christopher Doheny Prize from the Center for Fiction. His work has appeared in publications like the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Paris Review, Agni, and a few others. Mike has received awards, fellowships, and scholarships from Yaddo, Bread Loaf, Ucross, and was the Philip Roth Writer In Residence at Bucknell University a while back.

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Average rating: 3.82 · 278 ratings · 43 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

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Mike Scalise liked Stefanie's review of The Brand New Catastrophe: "Full disclosure: I used to work with the author (but not at any of the places mentioned in the book). That fact doesn’t affect my rating of the book: It’s just the reason I heard of it. I read this book in the midst of a family catastrophe, and man, " Read more of this review »
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Mike Scalise made a comment on Stefanie’s review of The Brand New Catastrophe " hey hey, thankya "
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