“Exquisite in both story and sentence, the Anne books built me as a reader, which is to say: they built me.”Sarah Mesle on "Anne of Green Gables"
Los Angeles Review of Books
Ben Mauk
Ben Mauk lives in Iowa City, where he teaches writing at the University of Iowa and hosts The Lit Show on KRUI 89.7 FM. He has written for The Believer, The Iowa Review, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. He is a graduate of Cornell University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
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Art & Architecture
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
SF
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
Film
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
Biography & Autobiography
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
Television
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More