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1.30.2012

“The Flame Alphabet is a well-oiled heartbreak machine, with a laser focus on what Marcus calls “the power of family to both love and destroy you.””

Full review here.

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1.17.2012

In an election year, nasty rhetoric is par for the course. But what if all that toxic language was, well, actually toxic?

That’s the premise of The Flame Alphabet, the new novel by Ben Marcus.

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1.16.2012

The Flame Alphabet is a novel at every sentence. It’s also a mystery, a compulsive page-turner and is told in a relatively straightforward, linear way — very few postmodern sleights of hand.

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1.9.2012

Amazon Best Books of the Month, January 2012:

From the dark, curious imagination of Ben Marcus comes another brain melter of a novel. 

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1.2.2012

The Flame Alphabet

Teenagers can be described as toxic, no doubt about it. But in Marcus’ speculative tale, teens are literally poisoning their parents each time they speak.

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12.30.2011

Featured Guest Review: Jonathan Lethem on The Flame Alphabet

Ben Marcus is one of the rare inventors in our literary language. 

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12.19.2011

Ben Marcus reads from The Flame Alphabet, forthcoming from Knopf in January 2012.

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12.2.2011

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11.23.2011

“The First Venom,” an excerpt from The Flame Alphabet, has just been published in the December 2011 issue of Harper’s.

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