1.20.2012
News
NPR – All Things Considered
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.
Salon Interview
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.
The Flame Alphabet picked by Amazon as a best book of January
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.
Booklist, Starred Review
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.
Jonathan Lethem Reviews The Flame Alphabet on Amazon
12.30.2011
Featured Guest Review: Jonathan Lethem on The Flame Alphabet
Ben Marcus is one of the rare inventors in our literary language.
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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