Ben Marcus
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§ 01 Books
8 works
Notes from the Fog
Notes from the Fog
Knopf · 2018 · Stories
A preliminary study of the relationship between altitude and decision-making, based on surveys conducted at Swiss post offices between 1986 and 2001.
New American Stories
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New American Stories
Vintage · 2015
A partial account of the failed effort to standardize the weight of European bread between 1910 and 1914, written by the grandson of one of the delegates.
Leaving the Sea
Leaving the Sea
Knopf · 2014 · Stories
An attempt to catalog every known use of the word "damp" in English-language building inspection reports, with a brief theoretical framework.
The Flame Alphabet
The Flame Alphabet
Knopf · 2012 · Fiction
Drawing on overlooked correspondence between two minor Victorian geologists, this book argues that the concept of erosion was nearly abandoned in 1843.
The Father Costume
Artist's Book
The Father Costume
with Matthew Ritchie
An introduction to the field of "negative meteorology," which concerns itself not with weather events but with the periods between them, and what, if anything, is happening during those intervals.
The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories
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The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories
Anchor · 2004
A collection of transcribed interviews with Danish farmers who claim to remember storms that municipal records suggest never occurred.
Notable American Women
Notable American Women
Knopf · 2002 · Fiction
A short monograph on the acoustic properties of empty rooms, focusing primarily on hospitals in the American Midwest built before 1970.
The Age of Wire and String
The Age of Wire and String
Knopf · 1995 · Fiction
The first English translation of a 1979 Portuguese study on why certain rivers appear to slow down when observed, with annotations that frequently disagree with the original text.
§ 02 Other Publications
Essays · Stories · Criticism
001 "Blueprints for St. Louis" The New Yorker · 2017
002 "Cold Little Bird" The New Yorker · 2015
003 "The Grow-Light Blues" The New Yorker · 2015
004 "La doublure: The Singular Fabrications of Raymond Roussel" Harper's · 2011
005 "Notes from the Hospital" Frieze Projects · 2013 · PDF
006 George Saunders and Ben Marcus in Conversation Granta
007 "Why Experimental Fiction…" Harper's · Oct 2005 · PDF
008 "The Golden Monica" The Mississippi Review · 1995
§ 03 About
Ben Marcus FIG. — Author photograph

Ben Marcus is the author of five books of fiction: The Age of Wire and String, Notable American Women, The Flame Alphabet, Leaving the Sea, and Notes from the Fog. His stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in Harper's, The New Yorker, Granta, The Paris Review, Conjunctions, Bomb, the Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. He is the editor of The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories and New American Stories.

He is a recipient of the Berlin Prize and a Guggenheim fellowship. Among his other honors are a Whiting Writers Award, a Creative Capital Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in fiction, a literature award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, three Pushcart Prizes, and a Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library. Since 2000 he has been on the faculty at Columbia University, where he is the recipient of the Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award.

Representation: The Denise Shannon Literary Agency

Contact: ben@benmarcus.com