Ben Marcus » Events http://benmarcus.com Fri, 04 May 2012 15:54:44 +0000 en hourly 1 Celebrating the Work of Robert Coover: May 1 – 3 http://benmarcus.com/events/celebrating-the-work-of-robert-coover-may-1-3/ http://benmarcus.com/events/celebrating-the-work-of-robert-coover-may-1-3/#comments Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:31:28 +0000 Ben Marcus http://benmarcus.com/?p=2553 Brown University

With Sam Lipsyte, Carole Maso, Rikki Ducornet, Thalia Field, Shelly Jackson, Brian Evenson, Rick Moody, Ben Marcus, Bradford Morrow, Matthew Derby, etc.

Tuesday, 1 May

8 pm, 001 Salomon Center
Readings by Jonathan Baumbach, Robert Coover, Sam Lipsyte
& Ben Marcus
+ a multi-media music work by Butch Rovan (based on a Baudelaire
translation by Keith Waldrop)

Wednesday, 2 May

11 am, McCormack Family Theater, 70 Brown Street
Postmodernist Fiction, a Critical Assessment, with Geoffrey Green,
Heinz Ickstadt, Larry McCaffery & Brian McHale, moderated by Robert Scholes

3 pm, McCormack Family Theater
Readings by Brian Evenson, Thalia Field, Rick Moody, Wesley Stace & CD Wright

8 pm, 001 Salomon Center
John Wesley Harding’s Cabinet Of Unspeakable Wonders, featuring:
Daniel Falsenfeld
Kristin Hersh
The Jessold Consort (Evelyn Farney, Mila Henry and Jessica Schmitz)
Rick Moody
Ken Reid
Marcy Richardson, Soprano
Wesley Stace

Thursday, 3 May

11 am, McCormack Family Theater
Readings by Robert Arellano, Mary Caponegro, John Cayley, Geoffrey Green, Michael Joyce &  Joanna Scott

3 pm, McCormack Family Theater
Readings by Rikki Ducornet, Renee Gladman, Geoffrey Green, Shelley
Jackson, Carole Maso, Shahriar Mondanipour & Brad Morrow

8 pm, 001 Salomon Center
The Unspeakable Circus, countless manifestations of literary surprises, featuring Ringmaster Matt Derby

More info here.

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Monday, March 19, 7:30 PM

Blogger/Author Pairings:
Author Ben Marcus discusses his new novel, The Flame Alphabet, with blogger Ryan Britt of Tor.com
Introduction by Ron Hogan of Beatrice.com

Our ongoing Blogger/Author Pairings series features conversations between authors and bloggers who share territories, passions, and preoccupations. New York City-based author Ben Marcus discusses his new novel, The Flame Alphabet, with blogger Ryan Britt, a teacher at The Gotham Writers’ Workshop and staff writer for the popular science fiction and fantasy blog, Tor.com and Tor’s series “Genre in the Mainstream.” In The Flame Alphabet, the most maniacally gifted writer of our generation delivers a work of heartbreak and horror, a novel about how far we will go, and the sorrows we will endure, in order to protect our families. Both morally engaged and wickedly entertaining, a gripping page-turner as strange as it is moving, this intellectual horror story ensures Ben Marcus’s position in the first rank of American novelists. The event is hosted by series curator Ron Hogan, creator of the seminal literary blog Beatrice.com.

]]> http://benmarcus.com/events/greenlight-bookstore-march-19/feed/ 0 Spoken Interludes at Riverview – March 27 http://benmarcus.com/events/spoken-interludes-at-riverview-march-27/ http://benmarcus.com/events/spoken-interludes-at-riverview-march-27/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:52:13 +0000 Ben Marcus http://benmarcus.com/?p=2519 Reading

At Riverview
One Warburton Avenue
Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706
Catered by Chutney Masala
Click here for directions
Make reservations online

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3.12.2012, 7pm, Housing Works Bookstore

Diane Williams reads from her new book of stories, Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty, with Ben Marcus (The Flame Alphabet) and Deb Olin Unferth (Revolution).

In Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty, Diane Williams lays bare the urgency and weariness that shape our lives in stories honed sharper than ever. With sentences auguring revelation and explosion, Williams’s unsettling stories—a cryptic meeting between neighbors, a woman’s sexual worries, a graveside discussion, a chimney on fir—-are narrated with razor-sharp tongues and naked, uproarious irreverence. These fifty stories hum with tension, each one so taut that it threatens to snap and send the whole thing sprawling—the mess and desire, the absurdity and hilarity, the bruises and bleeding, the blushes and disappointments and secrets. An audacious, unruly tour de force, Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty cements Diane Williams’ position as one of the best practitioners of the short form in literature today.

“The uncanny has met its ideal delivery system: the stories of Diane Williams.”
—Ben Marcus

“These stories are the Giacometti walking man, the Cornell box, that extraordinary object born out of a genius for expressing the inner murmur of the mind. Each page is like throwing open the window in an electrical storm—strange sky, air full of voltage, and inside, a square of brave. Diane Williams is hilarious, brilliant, eccentric, powerful, and, luckily, ours.”
—Deb Olin Unferth

]]> http://benmarcus.com/events/housing-works-march-12/feed/ 0 Museum of Jewish Heritage – March 4 http://benmarcus.com/events/museum-of-jewish-heritage-march-4/ http://benmarcus.com/events/museum-of-jewish-heritage-march-4/#comments Sat, 25 Feb 2012 23:56:10 +0000 Ben Marcus http://benmarcus.com/?p=2501 DISCUSSION
Sunday, March 4, 2:30 P.M.
Jewish Dystopias

Writers Ben Marcus (The Flame Alphabet) and Joshua Cohen (Witz) in conversation

As audiences anxiously await the release of The Hunger Games film, Marcus and Cohen, two prominent Jewish writers with a taste for the apocalyptic, explore how the Holocaust informs their recent works.

$10, $7 students/seniors, $5 members

MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE

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Thursday March 1, 2012
2:30 pm
McCormack Family Theater
70 Brown St., Providence, RI 02912

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]]> http://benmarcus.com/events/brown-university-march-1/feed/ 0 JCC of San Francisco – February 26 http://benmarcus.com/events/jcc-of-san-francisco-february-26/ http://benmarcus.com/events/jcc-of-san-francisco-february-26/#comments Sat, 25 Feb 2012 23:40:19 +0000 Ben Marcus http://benmarcus.com/?p=2488 Bookfest 2012

JCC San Francisco
Sunday, February 26 – 1pm

INNOVATION & THE WRITER

ADAM LEVIN & BEN MARCUS
With Dan Schifrin

Join this provocative panel discussion exploring the terrain of contemporary literature. Adam Levin is the author of The Instructions and the short story collection, Hot Pink. Ben Marcus authored three works of fiction, including The Flame Alphabet. The Contemporary Jewish Museum’s Dan Schifrin moderates.

JCC San Francisco – 3200 CALIFORNIA STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118 • 415.292.1200

]]> http://benmarcus.com/events/jcc-of-san-francisco-february-26/feed/ 0 Bookforum at the New Museum – February 16 http://benmarcus.com/events/bookforum-at-the-new-museum-february-16/ http://benmarcus.com/events/bookforum-at-the-new-museum-february-16/#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:07:44 +0000 Ben Marcus http://benmarcus.com/?p=2475 Reading and Signing

Thursday, 16 February
6:30pm
The New Museum, 235 Bowery, NYC

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]]> http://benmarcus.com/events/franklin-park-reading-series-brooklyn-february-13/feed/ 0 Prairie Lights, Iowa – February 9 http://benmarcus.com/events/prairie-lights-bookstore-iowa-february-9/ http://benmarcus.com/events/prairie-lights-bookstore-iowa-february-9/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:24:07 +0000 Ben Marcus http://benmarcus.com/?p=2460 Granta Books, with Chinelo Okparanta

Join us for a special reading which will launch both Granta Magazine’s new issue: Exit Strategies and feature Ben Marcus reading from his new novel.

Chinelo Okparanta, who holds an MFA in fiction from The Iowa Writer’s Workshop, will read from her Granta story ‘America.’ In addition to Okparanta’s story, Exit Strategies contains work by John Barth, Alice Munro, and Claire Messud.

Ben Marcus will read from his new novel, The Flame Alphabet, which will be published in the UK by Granta next year.  It is set after a terrible epidemic has struck the country and the sound of children’s speech has become lethal. Radio transmissions from strange sources indicate that people are going into hiding. Figuratively speaking, teenagers can be described as toxic, but in Marcus’ speculative tale, teens are literally poisoning their parents each time they speak. This ingenious and provoking premise enables the boldly imaginative Marcus  to explore the paradoxes of family and how the need to communicate can go utterly wrong.

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