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In conversation: Ben Marcus

  • Fri 11 Apr 2014
  • 6:30 pm
  • Free
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Ben Marcus is the acclaimed author of five books of fiction: Notable American Women, The Father Costume, The Age of Wire and String, The Flame Alphabet and Leaving the Sea, described as ‘thoroughly and perversely entertaining’ (New York Times) and as tackling ‘deep-held, universal terrors and anxieties in his singular way’ (Time Out). His stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in Harper’s, The New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, The Paris Review, The Believer, The New York Times, Salon, McSweeney’s, Time and Conjunctions, among others. He is the editor of The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, the fiction editor at The American Reader and associate professor creative writing at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award, a Creative Capital Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in fiction, a literature award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, three Pushcart Prizes and a Guggenheim Fellow. Tonight he’ll be discussing his short story collection Leaving the Sea and there will be post-event book signing. Buy tickets here.

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