![]() ![]() Blistering, beautiful work from a modern master.īen Marcus is the author of four books of fiction: Notable American Women, The Father Costume, The Age of Wire and String, and The Flame Alphabet, and he is the editor of The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories. A heartbreaking collection of stories that showcases the author's compassion, tenderness, and mordant humor. Marcus writes beautifully, hilariously, and obsessively, about sex and death, lust and shame, the indignities of the body, and the full parade of human folly. In the bizarre but instantly recognizable universe of Ben Marcus's fiction, characters encounter both surreal new illnesses and equally surreal new cures. ![]() Louis," two architects in a flailing marriage consider the ethics of artificially inciting emotion in mourners at their latest assignment-a memorial to a terrorist attack. A father finds himself outcast from his family when he starts to suspect that his son's precocity has turned sinister in the chilling "Cold Little Bird." In "Blueprints for St. In "The Grow-Light Blues," a hapless, corporate drone finds love after being disfigured testing his employer's newest nutrition supplement-the enhanced glow from his computer monitor. Never has existential catastrophe been so much fun. With these thirteen transfixing, ingenious stories, Ben Marcus gives us timely dystopian visions of alienation in a modern world-cosmically and comically apt. ![]() Notes from the Fog: Stories (Knopf Publishing) ![]()
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