Winner of the Elixir Press Fiction Award. THE PAPER ANNIVERSARY won the 2023 Elixir Press Fiction Award. Contest judge, Anthony Varallo priests the book: "These stories leap off the page with so much energy and wit; there's life in every paragraph, every sentence. Dinah Cox seems to know the state of Oklahoma for all its contradictions, myths, and manners, and can skewer that world from an insider's vantage. Cox is a humorist of the first rank, one who seems aware that the prerequisite of great satire is to love the thing you are satirizing. I want everyone to read this book!" "Dinah Cox's story collection THE PAPER ANNIVERSARY marries the various worlds of Oklahoma with the humor of the darkly absurd. Her characters crave connection, want to be seen, but there is always an obstacle, and it is most often themselves. Cox is my favorite kind of writer--voice-y and compassionate, always humorous, at times sad, often (enough) hopeful. THE PAPER ANNIVERSARY is a funny, sad, funnily sad, sadly funny, compelling set of stories."--Lori Ostlund Fiction.

The Paper Anniversary

Literature & Fiction

Cox, Dinah

United States

Elixir Press

Set within the resilient Great Plains, these stories are marked by the region's people and landscape, and the distinctive way it is both regressive in its politics yet also stumbling toward something better. While not all stories are explicitly set in Oklahoma, the state is almost a character that is neither protagonist nor antagonist, but instead the weird next-door-neighbor you're perhaps too ashamed of to take anywhere. Who is the embarrassing one—you or Oklahoma? Dinah Cox lives in her hometown of Stillwater, Oklahoma, where she teaches in the English department at Oklahoma State University and is an associate editor at Cimarron Review.

Remarkable (American Reader)

Literary

BOA Editions, Ltd.

Fiction. LGBTQIA Studies. THE CANARY KEEPER himself is a failed actor, the kind of person no one wants to listen to at parties, but the eponymous play he stars in features characters eking out existence while in search of their own curtain calls, a chance to hear the applause before the silence sets in. Artist-citizens from the fictional Market Town look to the dimming spotlight and cannot decide its meaning: are they destined for burn-out or blinded by fantasies of themselves as small-town stars? They mark time by way of darkened, lonely highways, indifference from people in power, and the search for opportunity beyond the boredom of Oklahoma's borders. They step forward, clear their throats, and laugh at their ability to wait in the wings forever, longing for escape to the green room and anticipating that fateful moment when the stage manager says Go.

The Canary Keeper

PANK Books

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