Ben Marcus
1967-01-01
Ben Marcus is an American novelist and essayist known for experimental and contemporary literary fiction.
Books by Ben Marcus
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The age of wire and string
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The Anchor book of new American short stories
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Log of the S.S. The Mrs. Unguentine
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Quotes by Ben Marcus
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It was hard not to realize what kind of kid his parents wished they'd had, and when he thought about that kind of kid it was tempting for Paul to want to track, hunt, and eat the little thing.
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What treaty is it that finally separates those two territories, the hard resolve of our exteriors and the terrible disaster on our insides?
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Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.
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When a man modifies or adorns a woman's name, or dispatches an endearment into her vicinity, he is attempting at once to alter and deny her, to dilute the privacy of the category she has inherited and to require that she respond as someone quite less than herself.
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Until the notion of Helmet-Assisted Life catches on with more people, you may be seen as a threat if you wear a helmet during moments of intimacy. Yet it might also be true that relaxed intimacy cannot occur unless the head is fully protected.
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Until the notion of Helmet-Assisted Life catches on with more people, you may be seen as a threat if you wear a helmet during moments of intimacy. Yet it might also be true that relaxed intimacy cannot occur unless the head is fully protected.
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When a man modifies or adorns a woman's name, or dispatches an endearment into her vicinity, he is attempting at once to alter and deny her, to dilute the privacy of the category she has inherited and to require that she respond as someone quite less than herself.
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Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.
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What treaty is it that finally separates those two territories, the hard resolve of our exteriors and the terrible disaster on our insides?
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It was hard not to realize what kind of kid his parents wished they'd had, and when he thought about that kind of kid it was tempting for Paul to want to track, hunt, and eat the little thing.
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I work a lot in the summers. My family goes to Maine, where we have a little house. My wife's a writer, too, and we can write for six hours a day and then play with the kids.
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In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out and it's vivid, I find that I care about it, and it's part of me.
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Among other things, autoimmune disorders are an induction into a world of unstable information and no reliable expertise.
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I work, and then I leave the office, and I'm with my kids and just sort of enjoy them on a visceral level, and I don't feel like I'm exorcising my own deep ideas about parenthood and about how my life will come into play in my work.
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