Ben Marcus

Ben Marcus is the author of four novels. His latest is The Flame Alphabet. He is also a professor at Columbia University and the editor of The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories.  Flame warrior. 

"Machineries of reason, machineries of conduct, machineries of virtue. The machine that regulates instinct, keeps one’s hands free of another man’s throat, free of one’s own. These machines have all, as someone said, gone too long in the elements. Gummed now, rusted, bloodless. I forget who said it and I no longer care."

- The Flame Alphabet

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March 28, 2012

what may seem most revolutionary about Barthes’s essay is what it takes for granted: that there are readers at all for literary fiction...

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Open to any author writing in English about the Chicanx/Latinx experience, the Rivera Book Prize is committed to the discovery and fostering of extraordinary writing by a first-time or early career author whose work examines the long and varied contributions of Chicanx/Latinx in the US. The Rivera Book Prize aims to provide a platform that showcases the emerging literary talent of the Chicanx/Latinx community, to cultivate the next generation of Chicanx/Latinx writers, and to continue the rich literary memory of Tomás Rivera, Chicano author, poet, activist, and educator.

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