Ben Paynter is a journalist, editor, and writer with a background in book-selling. He holds degrees in Literature, Philosophy, and Creative Writing from the universities of East Anglia and Manchester, in the UK. He currently resides in south Germany.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES

An Interview With Myself, After Reading This Book: “Black Rock White City” by A. S. Patrić
Ben Paynter reviews A. S. Patrić's "Black Rock White City."...

A Bromance of Bankers
Murray took five careful years to craft "The Mark and the Void," which exceeds "Skippy Dies" in wit and vigor and is a more polished and mature work....

A Reasonable Response to Ruin
Dora Apel goes on the offensive against the myriad myths and delusions peddled about the Motor City....

The Great Gorsky: A Debut Novel from Vesna Goldsworthy
With her fiction debut, Vesna Goldsworthy achieves notable, if not total success in making a new Gatsby out of a modern-day Russian oligarch in London....

The Heady June Joys of Indie Publishing
Indie presses are a reliable bet for finding literature that is honest, considered, discerning, and, most of all, original....

Building Beyond Capitalism
"Was (is) there something in it that suggests ways of building cities outside of capitalism?"...

Fear of the Cold: Aki Ollikainen
"Aki Ollikainen: his prose is as determined as the characters’ own will to live."...
