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Ben Marcus

Ben Marcus is the author of The Age of Wire and String, Notable American Women, The Flame Alphabet and Leaving the Sea. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, Harper’s and the Paris Review. Marcus has received a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Berlin Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is on the faculty at Columbia University in New York.

Publications

American Fiction

Notes from the Fog

Ben Marcus

£12.99

American Fiction

The Flame Alphabet

Ben Marcus

£8.99

American Fiction

The Age of Wire and String

Ben Marcus

£14.99

Books

New American Stories

Ben Marcus

£12.99

Books

Leaving the Sea

Ben Marcus

£9.99

Ben Marcus on Granta.com

Fiction | Issue 133

Fiction | Issue 133

George and Elizabeth

Ben Marcus

‘She could see, or was starting to, that someone out there was seeing him, watching him.’

In Conversation | Issue 133

In Conversation | Issue 133

George Saunders and Ben Marcus In Conversation

George Saunders & Ben Marcus

‘One purpose of art is to get us to wake up, recalibrate our emotional life, get ourselves into proper relation to reality.’

Fiction | Issue 122

Fiction | Issue 122

The Loyalty Protocol

Ben Marcus

‘The tally, indeed, on that particular activity, in that particular location – or, in fact, on any couch ever – was, indeed, zero.’