Ben Marcus

• Nov-1995
• / General Fiction
• 

In The Age of Wire and String, hailed by Robert Coover as "the most audacious literary debut in decades," Ben Marcus weilds together a new reality from the scrapheap of the past. Dogs, birds, horses, automobiles, and the weather are some of the recyc...

• Mar-2002
• / General Fiction
• 

Ben Marcus achieved cult status and gained the admiration of his peers with his first book, The Age of Wire and String. With Notable American Women he goes well beyond that first achievement to create something radically wonderful, a novel set in a w...

• Jan-2012
• / Literary
• 

In The Flame Alphabet, the most maniacally gifted writer of our generation delivers a work of heartbreak and horror, a novel about how far we will go, and the sorrows we will endure, in order to protect our families. A terrible epidemic has struck...

• Jan-2014
• / Psychological Suspense
• 

From one of the most innovative and vital writers of his generation, an extraordinary collection of stories that showcases his gifts -- and his range -- as never before. In the hilarious, lacerating “I Can Say Many Nice Things,” a washed-up w...

• Feb-2015
• / General Fiction
• 

• Jul-2015
• / General Fiction
• 

In New American Stories, the beautiful, the strange, the melancholy, and the sublime all comingle to show the vast range of the American short story . In this remarkable anthology, Ben Marcus has corralled a vital and artistically singular crowd...

• Jul-2015
• / General Fiction
• 

In "New American Stories," the beautiful, the strange, the melancholy, and the sublime all comingle to show the vast range of the American short story . In this remarkable anthology, Ben Marcus has corralled a vital and artistically singular crowd of...

• Aug-2018
• / General Fiction
• 

Ben Marcus returns with a collection of timely dystopian visions of alienation in a modern world. Here a hapless, corporate drone finds love after being disfigured from testing his employer’s newest nutrition supplement; a father starts to suspect ...