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My Syllabus Launch – Episode 1: International Workers Revolution

I launched a YouTube channel called My Syllabus this week. While I have no idea what I’m doing I want to figure out this medium and hopefully you’ll provide feedback as well so it gets better and more useful. To start I’m planning it to be an exploration of ideas that interest me, from poetry to […]

Eduardo Pavez Goye Book Review

One of my favorite YouTube creators is the Chilean playwright, author, musician and photographer Eduardo Pavez Goye. If you’re unfamiliar with him then I highly recommend that you subscribe to his channel when you visit the video below. A month or so ago I sent him a copy of If Only The Names Were Changed […]

2016 Beachie Award

I’m really excited to announce that my book was chosen by alt-lit reviewer Beach Sloth for a 2016 Beachie Award.   “Best Novel (Male): Andrew Miller’s If Only The Names Were Changed– I began the book knowing nothing and by the end I knew it all. This is a book that consumes the reader whole […]

Ploughshares reviews “If Only The Names Were Changed”

“The Beauty of Self-deprecation in Andrew Miller’s IF ONLY THE NAMES WERE CHANGED” reviewed by Nicole L. Reber “Fasten your seat belts. Andrew Miller’s alternative lit style is about to take you on a bumpy ride. His memoir in essays, If Only the Names Were Changed, vacillates between hyper-masculine and tender in terrain that traverses […]

Pro-choice Agitation in Ohio

What began as an off-the-cuff idea I posted to Facebook has turned into a movement getting some serious news coverage. Here in Ohio our legislature has used the last days before the holiday recess to pass some very controversial laws regarding guns as well as women’s health choices. These laws have been previously found unconstitutional […]

Holiday Spot

After Hours

The Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery will be hosting an exhibit of cubical dweller’s art next spring (2017) and I’m honored to announce that I had a piece accepted to be in the show. This gallery is a block from my day-job and is a place of respite and meditation for me – particularly in […]

Sometimes I make things without words

My wife, Gail, works in communications for an inner-ring municipality next to Columbus, and is tasked with significantly more than merely communicating information to the residents. She helps find people food and shelter, heat, Christmas gifts; she runs very successful events like a Food Truck Festival, National Night Out,  TEDx, and much of the Fourth […]

CK Fiction reviews If Only The Names Were Changed

I’m excited to share another excellent review with you of If Only The Names Were Changed. Author Charles Kelley wrote about my book over on his blog CK Fiction. “Andrew gives the reader an uninhibited view into himself that pulls no punches – good, bad, or otherwise.” – Charles Kelley Read the full review here.

Beachsloth reviews If Only The Names Were Changed

Really excited to have found out that Beachsloth reviewed my book and had some very kind things to say about it. “If Only The Names Were Changed is an ode to the American fuck-ups and the art of fucking up. The self-doubt that comes with buying into the American dream is explored at great detail, as […]