Ben Marcus

Ben Marcus (born October 11th, 1967) is an American author and professor at Columbia University. He has written four books of fiction. His stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in publications including Harper's, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, The New York Times, GQ, Salon, McSweeney's, Time, and Conjunctions. He is also the fiction editor of The American Reader. His latest book, Notes From The Fog: Stories, was published by Alfred A. Knopf in August 2018.

Ben Marcus
Marcus at Lannan Center
Born1967 (age 52–53)
OccupationAuthor
NationalityAmerican
Alma materNew York University;
Brown University
GenreShort Story, Novel
Literary movementExperimental literature;
Postmodernist
SpouseHeidi Julavits
ChildrenDelia Marcus and Solomon Marcus

Life

Marcus grew up in Austin, the son of a retired mathematician and the literary critic and Virginia Woolf scholar Jane Marcus.[1] He received his bachelor's degree in philosophy from New York University and an MFA from Brown University.[2] His father is Jewish and his mother is of Irish Catholic background; Marcus had a Bar Mitzvah.[3] Marcus also has two kids, Delia and Solomon, born in 2004 and 2008.

Marcus is a Professor at Columbia University School of the Arts, and he lives in New York City. He is married to the writer Heidi Julavits.[4] He is the editor of The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, and the fiction editor at The American Reader. For several years he was the fiction editor of Fence.

Influences

Marcus' influences include Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, Donald Barthelme, Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Bernhard, Padgett Powell, J. M. Coetzee, Kōbō Abe, Gary Lutz, and George Saunders.

Awards and honours

Books

Novels

Other works
  • The Age of Wire and String (1995), short stories
  • Text for the photography book by Kahn & Selesnick Scotlandfuturebog (2002). Aperture Foundation, New York City, ISBN 0-89381-935-2.
  • The Father Costume (2002), novella with art by Matthew Ritchie
  • The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories (2004), editor
  • The Moors (2010)
  • Leaving the Sea (2014), short stories
  • Notes from the Fog, Knopf, (2018), ISBN 978-1101947456 short stories

Essays
  • Chemical Seuss, from benmarcus.com
  • Thomas Bernhard, from benmarcus.com
  • On the Lyric Essay, from benmarcus.com
  • Why experimental fiction threatens to destroy publishing, Jonathan Franzen, and life as we know it: A correction, a response to an essay by Mr. Franzen, from Harpers.org

Short fiction

References
  3. http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/94010/keeper-of-the-flame-2/?all=1
  5. Alison Flood (13 June 2014). "Frank O'Connor prize shortlist pits 'masters' against first-timers". The Guardian. Retrieved June 16, 2014.
  6. "The 2014 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize Shortlist" (Press release). Book Trade. November 27, 2013. Archived from the original on November 30, 2013. Retrieved November 30, 2013.
  7. "2013 Fellows in the United States and Canada". gf.org. Archived from the original on March 31, 2014. Retrieved January 28, 2015.
  8. "Congratulating the 2013 / 2014 Berlin Prize Recipients". The American Academy in Berlin. Archived from the original on 2015-01-29. Retrieved January 28, 2015.
  9. "Creative Capital Announces 2009 Artists". Creative Capital Foundation. Archived from the original on June 28, 2014. Retrieved January 28, 2015.
  10. "Morton Dauwen Zabel Award". artsandletters.org. Archived from the original on 2013-08-23. Retrieved January 28, 2015.
  11. "Yaddo Whiting Writers' Award Recipients 1985 - 2012". yaddo.org. Archived from the original on April 4, 2013. Retrieved January 28, 2015.
  12. "NEA Fellowships 40-Years" (PDF). National Endowment for the Arts. March 2006. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 19, 2014. Retrieved January 28, 2015.
  13. U Chicago Writers, Ben Marcus, https://creativewriting.uchicago.edu/writers/kestnbaum-writer-residence/2015-ben-marcus
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