Ben Bush is a Truman Capote Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Bookforum, The Believer, Flavorwire, Poets & Writers, San Francisco Chronicle, The Literary Review (TLR), Yeti, and Conversations with William T. Vollmann (University of Mississippi Press).
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
No Civil War Reenactments Were Injured in the Writing of This Novel
Inherited institutional racism allows you to say you are merely upholding tradition. We become like this ant colony, where no one person stole the picnic....
A Religion of the Text
To observe the dietary laws of a religion is fundamentalism, but so too is staying off the grid, so too is attempting to remain illegible to commercial …...
Like Trenton But Without the Thrills: The Writing of Camden Joy
What’s in a name, asks Benjamin Bush about Camden Joy, and he answers, too....
