12.19.2011
Ben Marcus reads from The Flame Alphabet, forthcoming from Knopf in January 2012.
News
A Q&A with Harper’s
12.2.2011
An excerpt from The Flame Alphabet, in the December issue of Harper’s
11.23.2011
“The First Venom,” an excerpt from The Flame Alphabet, has just been published in the December 2011 issue of Harper’s.
Excerpts from The Flame Alphabet to appear in Harper’s and Bomb
11.17.2011
Harper’s Magazine will run an excerpt from The Flame Alphabet in their December issue. A different excerpt will appear in the Winter issue of Bomb Magazine.
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An essay on Raymond Roussel in Harper’s Magazine
10.20.2011
The Singular Fabrications of Raymond Roussel. Harper’s Magazine, November 2011.
The Flame Alphabet: starred review in Publisher’s Weekly and Pick of the Week
9.26.2011
“Language kills in Marcus’s audacious new work of fiction, a richly allusive look at a world transformed by a new form of illness.”
The Flame Alphabet reviewed in Library Journal
9.23.2011
Marcus, Ben. The Flame Alphabet. Knopf. Jan. 2012.
Fierce, scary, hurtful, unsettling, and brilliant, this new work by award-winning novelist Marcus (Notable American Women) reminds us that language is dangerous and that we’ll do anything to protect our children, even when they are (literally) killing us.
What Have You Done?, a short story, published in The New Yorker
8.1.2011
“When Paul’s flight landed in Cleveland, they were waiting for him. They’d probably arrived early, set up camp right where passengers float off the escalator scanning for family. They must have huddled there watching the arrivals board, hoping in the backs of their minds, and the mushy front parts of their minds, too, yearning with their entire minds, that Paul would do what he usually did—or didn’t—and just not come home.”
From the August 8, 2011 issue of The New Yorker.
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A conversation with Deborah Treisman for The New Yorker
8.01.2011
“…when I disrupt the present of the story and give a flashback, it’s not only like I’ve defanged the story, but I’ve extracted all of its teeth and deflated its whole face as well, so what’s left is a rumpled mess.”
