All posts by Mike Scalise

August 2nd, 2010

The Rumpus Original Combo with Mary Roach

“We don’t know what’s up there. What’s going to happen? Gravity’s a pretty serious issue. What happens if you take that away? We are little sacks of flesh and muscle and blood. We’re little frail things. What the heck will happen to us?” …more

August 2nd, 2010

Floating in a Most Peculiar Way

In Packing for Mars, Mary Roach matches her curiosity and humor against government secrecy, drunken Russian cosmonauts, and free-floating turds. …more

July 26th, 2010

The Shaking Woman

Siri Hustvedt’s memoir is a sprawling exploration of memory and the ways trauma manifests in physical illness—less Mary Karr, more Oliver Sacks. …more

June 15th, 2010

Gonville

An actor’s memoir of growing up with a dangerous father channels Augusten Burroughs, Sean Wilsey, et. al.—maybe a bit too closely. …more

September 1st, 2009

An Inside Passage

 Kurt Caswell’s award-winning essays channel Phillip Lopate and David Foster Wallace, while exploring the plight of a “mountain man” stuck in a paved-over world. …more

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Mike Scalise's essays and articles have appeared in Agni, Post Road, Ninth Letter, PopMatters, and elsewhere. He has received grants and scholarships from the Bread Loaf and Southampton writers conferences and was most recently the Philip Roth Writer in Residence at Bucknell University.

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