Ben Marcus Quotes
A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.
Marcus, Ben. The Flame Alphabet. Knopf, 2012.
The ambassador was spending the day with President Theodore Roosevelt. They played two sets of tennis, jogged around the White House lawn, and then did some gymnastics with the large medicine ball. The President had asked him what he would like to do next:
The coalescing of Public Opinion against slavery in the North was punctuated by the election of Abraham Lincoln in the eyes of the supporters of slavery left them with no where to turn within the Union. Secession followed.
Ben Marcus is an American author and professor at Columbia University. He has written four books of fiction. His stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in publications including Harper's, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, The New York Times, GQ, Salon, McSweeney's, Time, and Conjunctions. He is also the fiction editor of The American Reader. His latest book, Notes From The Fog: Stories, was published by Alfred A. Knopf in August 2018.
