Podcast appearances and mentions of Ben Marcus

New aerospace businesses seem to be launching every month, including electric ultralights, eVTOL air taxis, drone delivery services, and private space flight. As a longtime pilot and venture capitalist, Ben Marcus is the perfect person to sort through the hype. He explains which business models will work first, why Walmart is finding success with drone delivery, and what benefits GA pilots might see as a result of this investment boom. Ben also founded JetAviva, a popular airplane broker, so he talks about the light jet boom of the last 25 years and what it takes to transition from a piston airplane to a single pilot turbine. In the Ready to Copy segment, you'll hear about common charging standards for eVTOLs, the best light jet on the market, and Ben's favorite backcountry strip in Arkansas. SHOW LINKS: The Moving World Report: https://up.partners/movingworld/ The GameBird: https://youtu.be/pnFFyjkvDEg Pilot Training+ membership: https://www.sportys.com/sportys-pilot-training-plus.html

Sam Lipsyte is the author of many beloved books, a regular contributor to The New Yorker, and faculty member at Columbia University's MFA program. Gabe and Sam dig into his recent non-fiction piece in The New Yorker which is, in part, about the classes he took from the legendary editor Gordon Lish.* They also discuss Sam's recent novel, No One Left To Come Looking for You, which is a Gen X masterpiece. Gabe and Sam also talk about Public Enemy, his father's relationship with Muhammad Ali, and Sam's love of the word Antwerp. *Gordon Lish, as editor, is responsible for helping launch many of your favorite writers, including: Amy Hempel, Barry Hannah, Diane Williams, Ben Marcus, Garielle Lutz, Raymond Carver, Christine Schutt, Will Eno, and Brian Evenson. Jude Brewer was executive producer and editor for this episode Buy Sam Lipsyte's recent novel No One Left to Come Looking For You Buy Sam's recent novella Friend of the Pod Read Sam's recent nf piece in The New Yorker, “A Lesson for the Sub” Listen to Sam's noise-punk band Dungbeetle from early 90's Read Sam's By the Book interview in NYT Read Sam's essay about his father, the legendary sportswriter Rate/review Kurt Vonnegut Radio (this is how you help our show live) Find Gabe on Twitter and Instagram and email More episodes: Sinead O'Connor George Saunders Kurt Vonnegut Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Quarterly was a literary magazine edited by Gordon Lish from 1987 to 1995. (I was Mr. Lish's editorial assistant in the early '90s.) I'll read just one story from the Spring 1988 issue of the journal: "Darling" by Willam Tester. Gordon Lish is an acclaimed author and editor. A former editor at Esquire and Alfred A. Knopf, he is celebrated for his notable work with authors including Raymond Carver, Denis Donoghue, Barry Hannah, Amy Hempel, Gary Lutz, Ben Marcus, and Christine Schutt, among many others. His books include Dear Mr. Capote, What I Know So Far, Mourner at the Door, Extravaganza, White Plains, Peru, Zimzum, The Selected Stories of Gordon Lish, and more. He is married and lives in New York. He is 89 years old. Support the showRead Me to Sleep, Ricky is hosted by Rick Whitaker and produced in New York City. Contact: rickawhitaker@gmail.comhttps://readmetosleepricky.com

On this episode of Angreement Michelle and Katherine are low energy. But luckily, there's a grab-bag to be had, books to discuss, animal facts to learn, and so much more! Plus, Michelle gets to talk about pretty much her favorite thing that she is a *total* *certified* expert in! “Why Tigers find Calvin Klein's Obsession for Men Cologne So Irresistible,” by Emily Petsko, Mental Floss, https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/560127/why-tigers-find-calvin-kleins-obsession-men-cologne-so-irresistible Subterranean Books, STL: https://store.subbooks.com Ben Marcus, “Notable American Women,” https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/155641 “Warner Bros. Discovery Wants to Compete for Kids and Families – and HBO was in the Way” by Lucas Manfredi, Yahoo News https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/warner-bros-discovery-wants-compete-000134733.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAAXMbhwgJ0kDfCbnhIqtGkyQPV0jpJuxh03UnMkcsvE-5lxRRGD-E2s121FqxYQStpWRDpVpsNyzloqoaXrkgmE01OBkzqsmzO9ECFdNIQaIhV7B6k5a7qDBK3oITkC6vKP3V0mrCyk3T_gWdMvz47KDTz-Lv9LZKfk5tHsKzJHW “Are Viruses Alive, Not Alive, or Something in Between, and Why Does it Matter?” by Megan Scudellari, Science News, https://www.sciencenews.org/article/viruses-alive-coronavirus-definition “Vocabulary of Definitions of Life Suggests a Definition,” by Edward N. Trifonov, Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics, Vol.29 Issue No. 2, 2011 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/073911011010524992?needAccess=true&role=button “The Honey Trap – The FBI Used an Undercover Cop with Pink Hair to Spy on Activists and Manufacture Crimes.” By Trevor Aaronson, The Intercept, https://theintercept.com/2023/03/21/fbi-colorado-springs-surveillance/

The Quarterly was a literary magazine edited by Gordon Lish from 1987 to 1995. (I was Mr. Lish's editorial assistant in the early '90s.) I'll read three stories from the Spring 1987 first issue of the journal: "The Harvest" by Amy Hempel, "Sea Animals" by Tom Spanbauer, and "The Slit" by Yannick Murphy. Gordon Lish is an acclaimed author and editor. A former editor at Esquire and Alfred A. Knopf, he is celebrated for his notable work with authors including Raymond Carver, Denis Donoghue, Barry Hannah, Amy Hempel, Gary Lutz, Ben Marcus, and Christine Schutt, among many others. His previous books include Dear Mr. Capote, What I Know So Far, Mourner at the Door, Extravaganza, White Plains, Peru, Zimzum, The Selected Stories of Gordon Lish, and more. He is married and lives in New York. He is 89 years old. Literary Guise Podcast: A Book Club for Modern MenA cocktail-infused book podcast, examining positive and toxic portrayals of masculinity.Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the showRead Me to Sleep, Ricky is hosted by Rick Whitaker and produced in New York City. Contact: rickawhitaker@gmail.comhttps://readmetosleepricky.com

Assistant commissioner Ben Marcus says the body of a 47-year-old man was recovered after his car was swept into floodwaters.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Há quem ache que isso não passa de cosmética, mas se hoje desfilam pelas praias pranchas das mais variadas cores e decorações, é porque muita história rolou desde os primórdios do surf.Lá no começo, os havaianos não decoravam suas canoas e pranchas. No máximo o nome do dono ou uma pequena arte na madeira que ocupava a área do bico. Isso era um sinal de respeito ao mar e seus perigos, segundo o que conta Ben Marcus, ex-editor da Surfer Magazine, em seu livro sobre a história das pranchas de surf. Mal sabiam eles que, ironicamente, séculos depois as pranchas virariam verdadeiros outdoors.A tradição permaneceu até o início da produção de pranchas em massa, quando começaram a surgir alguns logos de fabricantes. Mas foi só alguns anos depois da Segunda Guerra Mundial que isso começou a mudar definitivamente. A ideia de decorar pranchas com adesivos surgiu em 1952, quando o shaper Dale Velzy se inspirou na onda de customização dos carros hot rods. Numa sacada comercial, ele criou decalques que podiam ser aplicados com água nas pranchas.Desde então a arte da escultura se fundiu à arte da pintura, traduzindo o espírito do tempo na estética das pranchas de surf. E é sobre essa relação artística que temos com o equipamento, que Carol Bridi, Rapha Tognini e Junior Faria conversam neste episódio do Surf de Mesa. É só dar o play aqui pra se inspirar com toda essa história...

 Milwaukee is home to numerous family-owned businesses. Among them is the multifaceted Marcus Corporation, which was founded by Ben Marcus in 1935, and which now comprises a collection of movie theaters, restaurants and hotels across the country.This week, we're sitting down with David Marcus, CEO of Marcus Investment Group, the parent company of Benson's Restaurant Group to talk about his experience as a third generation operator. During our conversation, we discuss the legacy of the Marcus restaurants, from the Marc's Big Boy franchise and Kentucky Fried Chicken to cult favorite, Captain's Steak Joint. But Marcus also shares what drew him to the family business, the story behind the rebranding of Hospitality Democracy to Benson's Restaurant Group, and a few more details about the plans for Benson's new restaurants the Harbor District R1ver Campus.

Ben Marcus is the cofounder of UP Partners, a new $230M fund investing in the moving world.   Ben tells us about electric vertical takeoff airplanes, drones delivering packages from the roofs of Walmarts, and how flight is going to connect humanity.  

Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:– The four types of poetry podcasts– A recent episode of Alice Allan's podcast Poetry Says– Alice's book The Empty Show– Red Scare and The Garret– George Orwell's essay “Poetry and the Microphone”– Mark Strand– Bonny Cassidy– Finding your voice as a poet– Shane McCrae's essay “My War with John Ashbery”– David Shurman Wallace's essay “Dead Poet Anxiety”– Extremely online poets– Alan Shapiro– Shane McCrae's poem “Jim Limber on Continuity in Heaven”– Harold Bloom's book The Anxiety of Influence– Instagram poet Kate Baer– Famous nonexistent Australian poet Ern Malley– Nobody wants to write reviews– Ben Marcus' book Notable American Women– Kaveh Akbar's bad blurb for the inaccurately titled Best Poems of Jane Kenyon– John Ashbery's poem “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror”– John Ashbery's poem “The Instruction Manual”– John Ashbery's poem “Some Trees”Please rate, review, and subscribe! Or just recommend the show to a friend!Send questions, comments, and suggestions to sleerickets@gmail.com. Music by ETRNLArt by Daniel Alexander Smith

With Julia on holiday, Greg is once again joined by CoMotion's John Rossant for a whirlwind analysis of U.S. elections (free transit in Boston?), COP26 (beyond EVs?), energy prices' wild ride as the renewables revolution continues apace, and New York City taxi drivers' successful hunger strike. John is joined by UP Partners managing director Ben Marcus for a wide-ranging conversation about urban- (and regional) air mobility — a major theme of next week's CoMotion LA! As always, send questions to Greg & Julia at fastforward@comotionglobal.com. Show Notes: • They Won: The Hunger-Striking Taxi Drivers Who Claimed Victory (Curbed) https://www.curbed.com/2021/11/what-the-nyc-taxi-drivers-on-a-hunger-strike-won.html • Transit Advocate Michelle Wu Will Be Boston's Next Mayor (Streetsblog) https://mass.streetsblog.org/2021/11/02/transit-advocate-michelle-wu-will-be-bostons-next-mayor/ • No Bicycling at COP26 Means Quickest Way to Decarbonize Road Transport Is Inexplicably Missing (Forbes) https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2021/11/02/no-bicycling-at-cop26-means-quickest-way-to-decarbonise-road-transport-is-inexplicably-missing/?sh=3992ca3b740a • Adam Tooze: The Wild Ride Ahead (New Statesman) https://www.newstatesman.com/long-reads/2021/10/the-wild-ride-to-come • Jon Hamm Flies With Skyryse (YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJOe7J_Auuk

https://thetalkingbook.org/mira-corpora JEFF JACKSON is a novelist, playwright, visual artist, and songwriter. His second novel Destroy All Monsters was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in Fall 2018. It received advanced praise from Don DeLillo, Janet Fitch, Dana Spiotta, Ben Marcus, and Dennis Cooper. His novella Novi Sad was published as a limited edition art book and selected for “Best of 2016” lists in Vice, Lit Reactor, and Entropy. His first novel Mira Corpora, published in 2013, was a Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and featured on numerous "Best of the Year" lists, including Slate, Salon, The New Statesman, and Flavorwire. His short fiction has appeared in Guernica, Vice, New York Tyrant, and The Collagist and been performed in New York and Los Angeles by New River Dramatists.

Ben Marcus is the Chairman of Airmap, a company that aims to deliver a four-dimensional version of Google and Ways maps for the sky that will be filled with drones by 2030. Unlike Google/Ways the platform will be an autonomous air control system that helps orchestrate in very safe ways how drones of various sizes and with very different purposes navigate the sky's above us. There is probably nobody better suited to ask about drones of the future and what we should hope for, expect and think about as consumers and leaders for the world of 2030.Ben's view is that drones will help solve urban over-crowding, bring services and products to rural areas in ways only big cities dwellers have experiences and also widen or perspectives on personal transportation. Drones in 2030 will be as common as seeing cars around you on the road.

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3 Books is a completely insane and totally epic 15-year-long quest to uncover and discuss the 1000 most formative books in the world. Each chapter discusses the 3 most formative books of one of the world's most inspiring people. Sample guests include: Brené Brown, David Sedaris, Malcolm Gladwell, Angie Thomas, Cheryl Strayed, Rich Roll, Soyoung the Variety Store Owner, Derek the Hype Man, Kevin the Bookseller, Vishwas the Uber Driver, Roxane Gay, David Mitchell, Vivek Murthy, Mark Manson, Seth Godin, and Judy Blume. 3 Books is published on the lunar calendar with each of the 333 chapters dropped on the exact minute of every single new moon and every single full moon all the way up to 5:21 am on September 1, 2031. 3 Books is an Apple "Best Of" award-winning show and is 100% non-profit with no ads, no sponsors, no commercials, and no interruptions. 3 Books has 3 clubs including the End of the Podcast Club, the Cover to Cover Club, and the Secret Club, which operates entirely through the mail and is only accessible by calling 1-833-READ-A-LOT. Each chapter is hosted live and in-person at the guest's preferred location by Neil Pasricha, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Awesome, The Happiness Equation, Two-Minute Mornings, etc. For more info check out: https://www.3books.co “An astoundingly tuned voice, telling just the kind of stories we need to get us through these times.” Thomas Pynchon “Not since Mark Twain has America produced a satirist this funny.” Zadie Smith “George Saunders makes you feel as if you are reading fiction for the first time.” Khaled Hosseini I could keep going and going with other literary all-stars lining up to praise George Saunders but my favorite quote about George’s writing comes from Ben Marcus in The Believer back in 2004: “The Suits call his writing ‘stories,’ but they are really soft bodies to wear for a larger experience of life, hollowcore person-shapes that one can slip on in order to attain amazement. Saunders writes bodies, and his readers wear them.” Yes! That’s how I feel, too. Which is what made it such an immense pleasure to sit down with the humble genius that is George Saunders. Don’t take the genius label from me! He’s won a MacArthur Genius Grant, Guggenheim Fellowship, PEN/Malamud Prize and been named to Time’s 100 Most Influential People. He won the Man Booker for the mesmerizing otherworldly masterpiece Lincoln in the Bardo, and every time I read his short story collections Pastoralia and Tenth of December they just crack my heart wide open. And, just to extend the literary resume here, his most recent book A Swim in the Pond in the Rain is simply the best book on writing I have ever read. I highly recommend it to all writers. George Saunders has also been a Professor in Creative Writing at Syracuse University since 1997. Cheryl Strayed, our guest in Chapter 69, is one of hundreds who had George as a teacher and calls him a mentor today. Please enjoy this wide-ranging conversation discussing the computer we are all trapped inside, reading as a life project, how we process reality, practicing Buddhism, the world as a corrective force, delivering payoff, staying grounded, cultivating a love of literature in children, harnessing our shadow selves, quieting mental rumination, aiming our spigots, and much, much more … . The wisdom of George Saunders offers a true masterclass on writing, on living, on life. Let’s flip the page into Chapter 75 … What You'll Learn: How does our brain process reality? How do writers justify the non normative and guarantee pay off? What is a reading project? How does death amplify life? What is the self? What is efficiency in writing? How should we stay grounded despite success? When should writers compare themselves to the masters? How should we think about kindness? What can we learn from Buddhism? What is an innate tendency of mind? How can parents cultivate a love of literature in their kids? How can we channel our different mental states to be creative? How does exploring one’s dark side or subconscious impact one’s writing? How can the minutiae of editing save a writer? How can we learn to live more freely?   You can find show notes and more information by clicking here: https://www.3books.co/chapters/75  Leave us a voicemail. Your message may be included in a future episode: 1-833-READ-A-LOT. Sign up to receive podcast updates here: https://www.3books.co/email-list     

Episode 5: Dr. Ben Marcus Dr. Ben Marcus went into medicine because he feared wasting his life. After navigating this field that he had stumbled into, he is now the director of facial plastic surgery at the University of Wisconsin, as well as a professor for the department of surgery. But, his story is far more complicated than that. Ben was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 2016. As he faced what he thought could be the last months of his life, time slowed down. He realized that living in the moment isn’t about lofty goals, that being joyful is the outward sign of being grateful, and that he wanted to climb to Mount Everest base camp. He shares the perspective this experience gave him, what he learned while facing his multiple myeloma, and how he finds himself more happier than ever despite this disease. Follow us on Twitter: @WiscSurgery Give our Facebook page a like: @uwsurgery Follow us on Instagram: @uwsurgery

DroneTalks CEO and Founder, Eszter Kovács talks to Ben Marcus, Chairman at AirMap. He shares his personal story on his passion for aviation and talks about how he became an industry leader, as well as sharing his views on the future of drones. He also gives his perspective on the impact of COVID-19 on the aviation industry and how drone operations are increasingly supporting the response to the crisis. As an investor and a businessman, he shines a light on innovation in modern times. Are you doing something amazing in the Drone ecosystem? Get involved! Go to www.dronetalks.online to find out more or contact us at info@dronetalks.online. Follow us on Twitter: @drone_talks, Instagram: @dronetalks.online, LinkedIn: DroneTalks.online or YouTube: DroneTalks

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Welcome to Episode 42 - How Ben Marcus WritesDo you enjoy listening to all of the amazing answers guests give when I ask about their one piece of writing advice? If so, I've compiled the first 35 responses in a FREE eBook. The answers are all sorts of awesome, with some inspirational and others a kick in the pants. To download your free eBook go to howwriterswrite.com/ebook and I hope you enjoy!This interview with Ben was a real blast. Ben is a literary treasure-trove. Ben is humble and gracious and shares so much for fiction writers. I think you'll find because Ben is an educator, he really knows how to communicate these huge writing concepts in ways that anyone can understand.I want to say a special thank you to Ben for his time and graciousness.And now, without any futher ado, here is the interview with Ben Marcus!Support the show (http://www.howwriterswrite.com)

JEFF JACKSON is a novelist, playwright, visual artist, and songwriter. His second novel Destroy All Monsters was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in Fall 2018. It received advanced praise from Don DeLillo, Janet Fitch, Dana Spiotta, Ben Marcus, and Dennis Cooper. His novella Novi Sad was published as a limited edition art book and selected for “Best of 2016” lists in Vice, Lit Reactor, and Entropy. His first novel Mira Corpora, published in 2013, was a Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and featured on numerous "Best of the Year" lists, including Slate, Salon, The New Statesman, and Flavorwire. His short fiction has appeared in Guernica, Vice, New York Tyrant, and The Collagist and been performed in New York and Los Angeles by New River Dramatists.As a playwright, six of his plays have been produced by the Obie Award-winning Collapsable Giraffe company in New York City. Vine of the Dead: 11 Ritual Gestures debuted in 2016 at the Westbeth Arts Center. Dream of the Red Chamber: Performance for a Sleeping Audience, an adaptation of the epic Chinese novel, debuted in Times Square in 2014 to rave reviews. Botanica was selected by the New York Times as "one of 2012's most galvanizing theater moments."He holds an M.F.A. from NYU and is the recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Hambidge Center.Film Professor, UNC Charlotte Taught American Independent Films: Cinema Outside the Mainstream , a survey class that includes Maya Deren, Sam Fuller, Stan Brakhage, John Cassavetes, Jack Smith, David Lynch, Charles Burnett, Todd Haynes, and Harmony Korine. Film and Music Curator- Co-curator of New Frequencies, cutting-edge film, music, and literature series for the McColl Center for Art + Innovation. Featured artists included Ben Marcus, Sandra Beasley, Guy Maddin, Janie Geiser, Jem Cohen, Rob Mazurek, Stephanie Barber, Battle Trance, and Lewis Klahr. The series was awarded “Best Arts Programming” by Charlotte Magazine in 2015 and Best Arts Event of 2016.- Founded, programmed, and organized NODA Film Festival whose eight festivals attracted over 12,000 attendees. Each festival focused on different theme, including Great Black Cinema, Asian Cinema, Animation, French New Wave. The series awarded Creative Loafing's “Best Film Festival.”- Programmed bi-monthly Loft/Lab concert jazz concert series in Manhattan that was positively reviewed in the New York Times and Time Out New York. Songwriter and singer in the band Julian Calendar, which has released the full length album Parallel Collage and performs live shows.Jeff's band, Julian Calendar's music can be found on our Bandcamp page: https://juliancalendar.bandcamp.comIf you liked this podcast, shoot me an e-mail at filmmakingconversations@mail.comAlso, you can check out my documentary The People of Brixton, on Kwelitv here: www.kweli.tv/programs/the-peopl…xton?autoplay=trueDamien Swaby Social Media Links:Instagram www.instagram.com/damien_swaby_video_producer/Twittertwitter.com/DamienSwaby?ref_src…erp%7Ctwgr%5EauthornewyorkbrooklynindiefilmfilmmakerscreenplayFilmmoviedanabrookedanabrookecinema dialoguemakemoviesLifePodcast

SELFIE DAD follows Ben Marcus, a reality television show editor trying to break into the world of YouTube. A former standup comic, Ben wants to get back to his roots of making people laugh. When Ben's son, Jack, uploads a video to his channel, Ben goes viral. However, going viral comes with its obstacles. Ben is faced with some difficulties that remind him of his father's immoral failures. The difficulties could ruin his family. Learn more at https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/selfie-dad.html

Parenting is no joke! SELFIE DAD is a light-hearted family film about one dad shaking off a mid-life crisis and reconnecting with his family . . . with his Bible in one hand and his phone in the other. The film stars nationally known Christian comedian Michael Jr., who for two decades has performed over a hundred dates a year for tens of thousands of people. The film features top-selling female Christian comedian Chonda Pierce along with James Denton, Jamie Grace and Karen Abercrombie (WAR ROOM). The Selfie Dad movie's Ben Marcus (Michael Jr.) has a problem. He’s healthy, happily married with two beautiful kids, and has a successful career as a reality TV editor—but he isn’t happy. Despite everything he has achieved, a hole has developed in his life, a hole that nothing seems to fill. Yep, Ben Marcus is facing a mid-life crisis.

Comedian Michael Jr. has appeared on The Tonight Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Comedy Central, and was in the movie War Room. On his national comedy tours, Michael packs venues over 800,000 people each year. On this episode, Michael Jr. talks about the movie "Selfie Dad" where he plays Ben Marcus healthy, happily married with two beautiful kids, and a successful career as a reality TV editor that’s going through a mid-life crisis. The Selfie Dad movie cast includes comedian- Chonda Pierce, veteran actor James Denton of the Good Witch, Karen Abercrombie from War Room, Shelby Simmons; Ava on Disney’s "Bunk'd.", and singer- song writer Jamie Grace.

Amid mass protests against police brutality and systemic racism ongoing in the United States, RSP contributor Ben Marcus speaks with Andre Willis and Carleigh Beriont about race and religion in this month's Discourse episode.

Our Interview today is with Ben Marcus; he is a first time candidate running for State House District 16. We cover a wide array of topics including money in politics, the education system, climate change, and reproductive health.

Our Interview today is with Ben Marcus; he is a first time candidate running for State House District 16. We cover a wide array of topics including money in politics, the education system, climate change, and reproductive health.

Siss Vik anbefaler "Flammealfabetet" av Ben Marcus. Hun kjøpte den på engelsk fordi Karl Ove Knausgård hadde holdt den fram som en bok han var veldig fascinert av – og så kjøpte forlaget hans den og ga den ut på norsk i 2015. Boken er oversatt av Eirik Lodén. Programleder er Turi Grønbech

Ben Marcus says he promotes religious literacy as a counter to bigotry and the violence that it can fuel.

Qualcomm’s focus on inventing mobile technology breakthroughs relies on a complex, global IT infrastructure. In order to deliver on this mission, its IT team embarked on a journey using Splunk Enterprise and IT Service Intelligence to develop world-class IT monitoring approach and implement a framework for continuous improvements. Learn how Qualcomm got started with core Splunk for logging, evolved to include system metrics, and ITSI for core services. Qualcomm will present how it approaches achieving its major objectives, such as democratizing access to data, breaking down silos around teams to improve collaboration, reducing time to troubleshoot and recover incidents, and achieving better visibility and understanding around service performance. Speaker(s) Ben Marcus, Sr. Staff IT Engineer, Qualcomm Michael Donnelly, ITOA Solutions Architect, Splunk Ryan Sims, Staff Manager, IT, Qualcomm Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/IT1798.pdf?podcast=1577146243 Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk IT Service Intelligence Track: IT Operations Level: Intermediate

We use Splunk data to help previously siloed groups at Qualcomm work better together. We will discuss specific high value, multipurpose data sources that we ingest, and how we use them to foster collaboration across teams. You will leave this session with a better sense of data sources that you analyze for security that can also help you work better with everyone from developers, to help desk staff, to executive management. Speaker(s) Ben Marcus, Sr. Staff IT Engineer, Qualcomm Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/SEC2280.pdf?podcast=1577146214 Product: Splunk Enterprise Track: Security, Compliance and Fraud Level: Beginner

Qualcomm’s focus on inventing mobile technology breakthroughs relies on a complex, global IT infrastructure. In order to deliver on this mission, its IT team embarked on a journey using Splunk Enterprise and IT Service Intelligence to develop world-class IT monitoring approach and implement a framework for continuous improvements. Learn how Qualcomm got started with core Splunk for logging, evolved to include system metrics, and ITSI for core services. Qualcomm will present how it approaches achieving its major objectives, such as democratizing access to data, breaking down silos around teams to improve collaboration, reducing time to troubleshoot and recover incidents, and achieving better visibility and understanding around service performance. Speaker(s) Ben Marcus, Sr. Staff IT Engineer, Qualcomm Michael Donnelly, ITOA Solutions Architect, Splunk Ryan Sims, Staff Manager, IT, Qualcomm Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/IT1798.pdf?podcast=1577146211 Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk IT Service Intelligence Track: IT Operations Level: Intermediate

Qualcomm’s focus on inventing mobile technology breakthroughs relies on a complex, global IT infrastructure. In order to deliver on this mission, its IT team embarked on a journey using Splunk Enterprise and IT Service Intelligence to develop world-class IT monitoring approach and implement a framework for continuous improvements. Learn how Qualcomm got started with core Splunk for logging, evolved to include system metrics, and ITSI for core services. Qualcomm will present how it approaches achieving its major objectives, such as democratizing access to data, breaking down silos around teams to improve collaboration, reducing time to troubleshoot and recover incidents, and achieving better visibility and understanding around service performance. Speaker(s) Ben Marcus, Sr. Staff IT Engineer, Qualcomm Michael Donnelly, ITOA Solutions Architect, Splunk Ryan Sims, Staff Manager, IT, Qualcomm Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/IT1798.pdf?podcast=1577146229 Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk IT Service Intelligence Track: IT Operations Level: Intermediate

We use Splunk data to help previously siloed groups at Qualcomm work better together. We will discuss specific high value, multipurpose data sources that we ingest, and how we use them to foster collaboration across teams. You will leave this session with a better sense of data sources that you analyze for security that can also help you work better with everyone from developers, to help desk staff, to executive management. Speaker(s) Ben Marcus, Sr. Staff IT Engineer, Qualcomm Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/SEC2280.pdf?podcast=1577146223 Product: Splunk Enterprise Track: Security, Compliance and Fraud Level: Beginner

Qualcomm’s focus on inventing mobile technology breakthroughs relies on a complex, global IT infrastructure. In order to deliver on this mission, its IT team embarked on a journey using Splunk Enterprise and IT Service Intelligence to develop world-class IT monitoring approach and implement a framework for continuous improvements. Learn how Qualcomm got started with core Splunk for logging, evolved to include system metrics, and ITSI for core services. Qualcomm will present how it approaches achieving its major objectives, such as democratizing access to data, breaking down silos around teams to improve collaboration, reducing time to troubleshoot and recover incidents, and achieving better visibility and understanding around service performance. Speaker(s) Ben Marcus, Sr. Staff IT Engineer, Qualcomm Michael Donnelly, ITOA Solutions Architect, Splunk Ryan Sims, Staff Manager, IT, Qualcomm Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/IT1798.pdf?podcast=1577146225 Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk IT Service Intelligence Track: IT Operations Level: Intermediate

Diane Williams’s short (most of them very short) stories have been captivating literary audiences on both sides of the Atlantic for the last three decades. Ben Marcus, in his introduction to The Collected Stories, has described them as ‘fictions of perfect strangeness’, adding that they ‘prize enigma and the uncanny above all else.’ Williams read from her work, and was in conversation with Lara Pawson, formerly the BBC’s correspondent in Angola and author of This is the Place to Be (CB Editions). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ben Marcus is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Airmap, a company that develops the digital infrastructure, standards, and services for drones to fly safely at scale. Basically they create the digital highways that allow for drones to fly. He grew up near an airport and was always fascinated with aviation.    He became a pilot, a flight instructor and eventually a flight test engineer who certified planes. And it was while he was learning to fly that he began his journey to come up with the idea for AirMap.    Ben says, “When I was a flight instructor flying over Los Angeles, I used to fly every day, and have a student next to me, look down at the freeways, and they're jammed packed with people. These cars are just stopped, and I felt so bad for all these miserable people stuck in traffic and I'm the only one up here in the sky. And I was like, "Why is there not more people in the sky with me?" And so, I've dedicated my life and my career to helping extend the benefits of flight to more and more people in their daily lives.”   So what do drones have to do with the future of work? The fact is drones are already being used in a lot of industries to help with cost savings, employee safety, and training. Ben gave an example of how the telecommunications industry is using drones to help with the process of inspecting their antennas. This process is usually dangerous for human workers as well as time consuming, but now the drones are easily and safely able to take video of the equipment that employees can then review to ensure everything is working properly.     In the future we will also see drones used in more science fiction-like ways. Ben believes that drones will have a huge impact on the world of talent because we will be able to fly to work. This will change how organizations think about where to put their headquarters and how individual employees think about where to live.    “If you can fly to work, you can avoid all of that lost productivity, all of that expense, and you can basically live where you want. If you can fly at 100 miles an hour instead of being stuck in traffic at 20 miles an hour, you could live five times further away and have the same commute time. So I actually think that this is gonna lead to a de-urbanization trend and I think it will counter a lot of the negative consequences that have come from urbanization. I think we can have a lot more green space, we need far fewer parking lots and fewer roads. We can have a much more environmentally sustainable way of life going forward. So that's a really exciting future.”   Ben’s advice to business leaders is if you haven’t started working with drones yet and implementing them in ways across your organization, you should start now, because your competitors are most likely already working with drones.    “Many of these large enterprises that have been experimenting with drones are now moving from an experimentation phase into a scaling phase where they maybe have had a drone initiative in their innovation department and they're now moving that across the enterprise and figuring out how they can really make this a part of their workflow, how the data that's collected from drones can be integrated into their ERP systems, how do you really make this a part of the fabric of how our company operates? That's happening now in a lot of businesses across lots of industries all around the world. So, it's not too late, but you should get started right now.” What you will learn: How Ben got involved with drones and AirMap What do drones have to do with work, jobs, careers and the business world The impact drones will have on the world of talent Some cool examples of how drones could affect our daily lives How to ensure drone safety What listeners need to know or think about when it comes to drones

Continua la lettura dei racconti della raccolta "Via dal mare" di Ben Marcus, questa volta in versione integrale. Perché se c'è una cosa che l'autore americano insegna nelle sue storie è l'importanza che dobbiamo dare al linguaggio e alle parole. Non sembra esistere altra realtà.La sigla è dei Drunken Rollers. Le musiche di Les Hayden.

Glenn Fisher talks to one of the founders of Uncommon London, Nils Leonard, about the creative process, the risks of being original and how you can use influencer marketing to your advantage. NOTES ON THE PODCAST: Nils Leonard has worked in the advertising industry for over 20 years and has won almost every award there is. He is one of the founders of Uncommon London, along with Lucy Jameson and Natalie Graeme. You can find out more about Uncommon here: http://www.uncommon.london/ Glenn Fisher is an author, speaker and copywriter. His first book, The Art of the Click is an Amazon bestseller and is published by Harriman House. It's available now on Amazon here: https://amzn.to/2lu7zDt The television version of the Brewdog advert we discuss can be found on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9OZMXsw5tI The Nike Lionesses advert we discuss can be found on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmhVGF9EICc The Fox and the Star by Coralie Bickford-Smith is available on Amazon here: https://amzn.to/2k1QsZC Grief Is A Thing With Feathers by Max Porter is available on Amazon here: https://amzn.to/2k1FCTr The Shape of Water by Andrea Camilleri is available on Amazon here: https://amzn.to/2k1RUeu The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus is available on Amazon here: https://amzn.to/2jZiGUN For more free insight into copywriting and marketing, visit: allgoodcopy.com/

Discussion Notes: Exquisite Corpse This week’s story: Exquisite Corpse by Zadie Smith, Rebecca Curtis, Mohsin Hamid, R.L. Stine, Rivka Galchen, Nicholson Baker, Anthony Marra, David Baldacci, Elif Batuman, James Patterson, Hanya Yanagihara, Joshua Ferris, Ben Marcus, Jenny Offill, Adelle Waldman Next week’s story: Saint Bus Driver by J. E. McCafferty Rated: Explicit Gerald, Anais and... The post Exquisite Corpse | T Magazine | Literary Roadhouse Ep 155 appeared first on Literary Roadhouse.

Discussion Notes: The Second Bakery Attack This week’s story: The Second Bakery Attack by Haruki Murakami Next week’s story: Exquisite Corpse by Zadie Smith, Rebecca Curtis, Mohsin Hamid, R.L. Stine, Rivka Galchen, Nicholson Baker, Anthony Marra, David Baldacci, Elif Batuman, James Patterson, Hanya Yanagihara, Joshua Ferris, Ben Marcus, Jenny Offill, Adelle Waldman Rated: Clean Gerald,... The post The Second Bakery Attack | Haruki Murakami | Literary Roadhouse Ep 154 appeared first on Literary Roadhouse.

Writers Ceridwen Dovey and Kelly Gardiner join Kate and Cassie to talk new books, and Andrea Goldsmith reveals how reading has allowed her to be 'privately wild'.

Welcome to the Spooky Sconnie podcast, the show that talks about the spooky, paranormal, criminal, and just plain odd Badger State. While we're known for sportsball and food, there's a lot more to learn about Wisconsin if you know where to look. In this episode, I cover the Pfister - a Milwaukee hotel spooky enough to scare off professional atheletes... and fancy enough to keep the pleebs like me away. We'll cover fun history, baseball, and portly gents. Also, does this look like it's seemlessly integrated? I don't think so. Further reading History on the Pfister website Documentary on the Pfister Pfister named one of America’s most haunted historic hotels Stories from Bryce Harper, Brandon Phillips, Giancarlo Stanton, Michael Young, Justin Upton, Pablo Sandoval, CJ Wilson, and Shane Victorino Carlos Martinez's story Jon Gray's ghost hunting The most frightening haunted baseball stories from Milwaukee's Pfister Hotel, according to MLB Here's a list of MLB players who have been haunted by Milwaukee's Pfister Hotel from JS Online This Shit Doesn’t Happen Overnight: The Insidious Planning That Goes Into Gentrification 7 Reasons Why Gentrification Hurts Communities of Color 5 Tactics That Fight Gentrification While Boosting Community Development 9 Ways Privileged People Can Reduce the Negative Impact of Gentrification Don’t Fall for These 3 Excuses for Gentrification – They’re Excusing Colonization, Too The next episode should be out by January 19th. Transcript Hey! In case you haven't listened to the first episode, I'm Kirsten Schultz and I'm your host. We talk about everything weird and creepy and spooky and random in Wisconsin. I really love true crime and I was really kind of getting bummed that the only few things being covered in Wisconsin constantly are Ed Gein and Jeffrey Dahmer. And while both of their stories are interesting, there's so much more to Wisconsin. So thanks for tuning in. Thanks for wanting to learn more about Wisconsin and random creepy shit. This week I wanted to do one of the coolest places. I have never been in the state. The Pfister hotel in Milwaukee is expensive enough to scare off the average person (i.e., me) and haunted enough to scare off even professional athletes. ----more---- Located at 424 East Wisconsin Avenue, the Pfister Hotel opened in 1893. The hotel is ornate and beautiful and happens to house the largest Victorian art collection of any hotel in the world, which I guess I didn't assume any hotel housed much Victorian art. So that was a weird fact for me. I don't know. It's fancy. It costs about a million dollars to build back in 1893. Um, and just to give you a rough idea in today's money, that's about $26,000,000. It's a lot. It's not just one of the most haunted places in Wisconsin, it's also one of the most haunted places in the country and constantly makes top 10 lists or top nine list or random numbers, but it's constantly the top of like spooky haunted hotel shit which is kind of awesome. It is the vision of businessman Guido Pfister and his son Charles. Um, like I said, the hotel opened in 1893. Charles went forward with the plan, still really enthusiastic about it, um, after his father passed away in 1889. So they had been talking, had been, you know, getting things set in motion for the hotel to go and be built and get started. And I'm all the sudden Guido dies and Charles, you know, carries on, wants to make sure that their family name, you know, still gets represented and really, um, kind of do this for pop kind of a thing, which was cool. It was designed by architect Henry C Koch [multiple pronunciations follow] - I don't know, whatever. There's too many pronunciations of that name. Um, he also designed the Turner Hall which is now Turner Ballroom which is a concert hall in Milwaukee, um, Science Hall at the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison as well as Milwaukee's city hall. The Pfister had features uncommon in its time such as fireproofing, electricity, and even thermostat controls like this shit was fannnncy. It replaced the Newhall House essentially, um, which had been destroyed in a fire in 1883. And that killed 90 people. But, but the Newhall House was like THE hotel in the city. Um, so once the Pfister came in, it became THE hotel in the city. And it's constantly where a number of professional sports teams stay when they're in town, where a lot of performing acts at nearby entertainment venue stay. So it's really a mainstay of stable in Milwaukee 125 years later, which is really cool. The story or the lobby is three stories and they really wanted to make it like a lush, opulent, glorious living room. There's touches of gold gilding, grand marble staircases that have bronze lions on them, like, to greet people, like on the sides. It's ridiculous. There's of course paintings and all the fancy art. There's a fresco on the ceiling, like it's like the spooky hotel should have been on American Horror Story: Hotel. Like it is fancy as fuck. Fuck-fancy. The whole way that the art collection started was actually, Charles wanted to share his personal art collection with the guests and really make that area feel like the fancy ass living room it is. It kind of started from there. The original building, um, because there have been additions which I will get to in a moment. Um, but it was eight stories. It's kind of this creamy or grayish limestone. There's romanesque renewal architecture on the outside. Um, there's granite columns, there's terra cotta touches and there's these giant bay windows - giant. The original 200 rooms were built with high ceilings and decorated with 19th century decorations, as you might imagine. It really offered a number of cool, um, services and conveniences within its walls as a lot of, like really fancy hotels tend to do it, housed things including restaurants, naturally a barbershop, hair salon, a drugstore with a Soda Fountain, a men's Lounge, a ladies' lounge, and the ballroom, which is, you know, available for rent for different things like weddings and other events at exorbitant prices. Um, you know, has seen a number of really cool events including a dinner for President William Mckinley and his cabinet, which is kind of amazing. Um, I don't think many people realize like how cool Wisconsin is. I mean, that's why I'm doing this podcast, but like, it's just one of those places that has always, you think of Milwaukee and that's what you think of, um, at least for people I think within the state who know about Pfister and it's significance in Milwaukee. That's what you think - for me, I think of the Brewers, the Bucks, and the Pfister, which they all kind of go together oddly enough. We'll get to that in a minute. So in the late fifties to early sixties, uh, there was a real period of decline, um, just in general in Milwaukee. It kind of tanked a little bit and fewer people were going to these really expensive fancy places. So, the hotel was purchased by Ben Marcus (of Marcus theaters, like, fame) and he wanted to bring the hotel back to its former glory because it also had kind of fallen into disrepair in some spots and it wasn't as great as it once had been over several years. They, you know, did renovations across though, it's how they also added some new things. So the first thing to do was a 23-story guestroom tower and it's kind of, if you're looking head on at the building, it's actually behind the original building, kind of like a circular tower, which is interesting. And that provided another 176 rooms and there's also a parking garage with that. And this is all 'seamlessly' added onto the old building. I kept seeing the word seamlessly added like that phrase. And honestly I get what they're going for. The colors the same. The style is not the same. I mean it's like setting up a roll of paper towels behind your laptop and making sure they're the same color and being like, "look, this was seamlessly added." Like, no, it's not the same. Um, it is really clear that it's not the same. You know, the, the added tower really looks very a sixties, I don't know. Anyway, to them it was seamlessly added. That's where the fanciest things are, which to me doesn't make any sense because they should be in the old building. But uh, there's rooms that feature English regency furniture, oversize wooden beds with post headboards swag drapes, framing bay windows and written white marble bathrooms. And just roll, just roll with the, uh, accents here. Currently all of the hotels, rooms and suites have magnificent furnishings. I copied some of this stuff from their hotels.com page, so I'm not meaning to sound like an ad for them, but it's going to come off a little bit that way. Um, there's 307 rooms currently. Um, there are 82 suites which have wet bars and sitting rooms. And wet bars, if you don't know what that is, um, if you've ever been in a larger hotel room and there's a little kitchennette kind of a thing where you've got like a little sink and a little like wine fridge that's a wet bar, not like swim up to a bar Wet Bar, although that'd be kind of amazing in these suites. The heritage suites have separate baths and showers, vanities, beautiful bathrooms and California king size beds. The king suites are in the historical section of the hotel and those have two rooms, a parlor and then the bedroom with a king bed. And in the pictures I was seeing, they are all like four-post beds, which is kind of fun. There's also usually like a pull out sleeper sofa in the parlor room. The tower king and double rooms or deluxe rooms which have spectacular views of the city and Lake Michigan because it is really in the heart of kind of downtown area, so you're really close to the lake and that towers pretty tall, so it's really easy to see the lake from those rooms. The Pfister double room is a deluxe room which is located in the section of the hotel that was renovated in 2008 because there was, there have been some ongoing renovations, but nothing quite as large as that one in the sixties from Ben Marcus. There's also a governor suite which is a three room suite. It includes a desk, a flatscreen TV, makeup mirrors, hairdryers and other amenities. You know, kind of going back to that Victorian artwork, visitors can explore and learn about the art collection in two ways. There's a self-guided tour, but the hotel - this is how you know it's fucking fancy - always has an artist-in-residence and they will take you on a tour of the artwork. Of course, it's had many different fancy people from dignitaries to musicians to actors, politicians (which I guess they're including in dignitaries but I feel like there's not a lot of dignity there). It's the most historic hotel in Wisconsin. It's a member of the elite preferred hotels and resorts worldwide and historic hotels of America, which, uh, is part of the program for National Trust for Historic Preservation. It's also a perennial winner of the AAA four diamond award. It's got like, it's one of those places that leaves chocolate on your pillows and has this little little note on the chocolates: "Because this hotel is a human institution to serve people and not solely a moneymaking organization. We hope that God will grant you peace and rest while you are under our roof. May the business that brought you out here way prosper. May every call you make and every message you receive add to your joy. May this room and hotel be your second home." Yeah, a is weird. Like I get it, but also like we're in 2018, 2019 here. Um, I don't know. It's just weird. Anyway, like I said, not here to be an advert for the hotel. So, let's dive into hauntings. The Pfister is legendary for ghosts, ghost hunting, ghost stories. Um, it was actually named one of America's most haunted historic hotels, which is real cool. The legend is that one of the ghost that haunts the hotel is Charles Pfister. You may remember him as the kid that went ahead and built the hotel. Guests and staff have seen him. They think he's a good natured portly gent. (Portly Gent - please some day if slash when I die, refer to me as a portly gent because that would be amazing) He usually stands, like, around the fancy staircase or is walking around the lobby and kind of enjoying what he built, which is cool. He's also been seen walking around the galleries and looking at the art. There's also like a random note in here about the people, like, hear puppies? I, I would be so happy, like I love dogs! So, every time I see any kind of animal I either shout out what it is - "Puppies!" - or, like, if I'm driving and I see a cow, okay, I'll go "Moos!" or I'll just start moving at them. Like, it would frustrate me to no end to be in a place where I can hear puppies, but there's no puppies to be found. I'm sorry. That is torture. Torture. Um, aside from puppies, the Pfister is beyond infamous among sports teams, particularly in major league baseball - so much so that a number of players will pay their own way to stay in different hotels to avoid the Pfister altogether when their teams are in town to play the Brewers. Players in general have reported things like stomping footsteps, moving lights, the AC or TV turning on and off, and mysterious voices. Um, I'll put a link to some of the most interesting and fun stories because there are a lot. Um, but I also want to share some right now because Holy Shit. Adrian Beltre, who's now retired, said in an interview in Sports Illustrated of all places that he heard knocking in the hallway and on his door. So, he went out to investigate, and found no one. Later, he watched as the air conditioning and TV both were switching on and off by themselves. When he was sleeping, he was awakened by pounding noises from behind his headboard. He was so scared that he actually took his bat with him to bed for protection and he was only able to sleep about two hours he said during his three nights stay. Carlos Gomez, former Brewer now on the Tampa Bay Rays, also experienced something paranormal. A day before a game, he heard disembodied voices and his ipod switched on by itself. It began vibrating wildly and just fell down. When he picked, he picked up the Ipod to look at it, to try to figure out what's wrong. So he puts it back down on the table and it started doing the same thing again. I love Carlos Gomez. Oh God, he's so cool. Brendan Ryan said in 2009 of his experience, "it was like a moving light that kind of passed through the room and the room got a bit chillier." The Brewers' manager, Craig Counsell, said two years ago that he heard former Pirates infielder Pedro Alvarez had experienced some 'weirdness' at the hotel and that matches up with a story told that year by Pirates manager Clint Hurdle, who didn't name names but said one of his players became spooked because the TV in his room turned on a couple of times throughout the night. Ji-Man Choi, who's currently on the Tampa Bay Rays and playing with Carlos Gomez which is awesome, had a spirit appear in his bed in 2016. Carlos Martinez of the Cardinals had a run in with a ghost in mid 2018, too. This one made a lot more news because I think we're more down to talk about this shit now it seems like. Um, so what he said was after he saw an apparition in his room, he couldn't sleep alone. And he even took to instagram to share his experience, which is probably part of why this blew up. Um, so he has actually like an instagram video and I'll link to that in the show notes. You can take a look at it because it's amazing. Colby Lewis apparently saw a 'skeletal apparition' move across this hotel room around 1:30 AM. It freaked him out so much that he talked with the team's chaplain as soon as possible. And then missed a press appearance the next day because he was too freaked out just trying to deal with it. Um, one anonymous manager reported he had to calm down a player in the middle of the night to convince him that ghosts don't exist. While many players have fear over the hotel, there are actually a bunch that are like, "Yeah, bring it on!" Rockies pitcher Jon Gray is one of those types of people. He's our peeps, um, and he actually conducted a paranormal investigation where the times he was in town, which is really cool and I want to hang out with that dude. Seriously, that's the way to do it. You just got to embrace it. If you find nothing, then like, you can calm yourself down and be like, 'hey, it's fine. No portly gents in my room.' Portly gent. Um, some of the other things that people see or experience are phantom footsteps, both apparently of the human and puppy variety, floating orbs, phantom voices, electrical anomalies, object manipulations and apparitions of portly gents and apparently also not poorly gents. Uh, so this is kind of a quick one because there's not really anything super scary about the Pfister. It just haunted as fuck. Um, and I'll put pictures of the outside. You can tell me if you agree with me or not, that they are two parts and do not look seamlessly integrated whatsoever. Yeah. I don't know. I really love downtown Milwaukee. In the last couple of years, It's seen a really nice resurgence and um, you know, good restaurants and good entertainment. I think one of the tricky things though is so much of that resurgence has come because of gentrification and that's essentially when white people move in and start taking over neighborhoods. So, if you've ever seen a Whole Foods go up in a place that was "not a good neighborhood" um, and then like that neighborhood starts prospering and hipsters move in? That's gentrification. Um, and Oh God, it happened so much here between Milwaukee and Madison and even some of the other larger cities in the state. Um, it's actually happening right now over on the east side of Madison where there's a number of buildings being put up - like new concert venues and new, like, luxury apartment buildings that then nobody can afford. And I think that's part of why you see it almost always tends to be like white hipster kids move and because they have money, or somehow at least enough money to, to live there because it's convenient and they can walk across the street to get groceries and whatever. I don't know. Um, it's, it's frustrating to me because there should be ways we should be looking at ways to, you know, reignite parts of our cities without gentrifying and without essentially resorting to racist white supremacist tactics to get there. Um, come for the knowledge about historical fun, creepy shit in Wisconsin, stay for the civics and justice lessons. Um, if you're interested in learning more about gentrification, I will include a couple of notes here, a couple of links in the show notes for you to do so. I hope you enjoyed the show. Uh, I think next I'm going to do a cryptid, the Hodag from Rhinelander. Yes. Rhinelander is a city, it's not like the Highlander, I promise. And I've kind of got a basically out of some of the things I want to cover soon. Um, I think after that I'll probably do a crime - like cover or crime, not commit a crime, um, because I wouldn't advertise that on any sort of media that I was going to commit a crime. The only crime I've done lately is I just ate Taco Bell before recording a podcast, which doesn't sound like a smart idea, does it? If you heard tummy gurgling was me, it's not you, it's fine. That's all for today's show. If you're wanting to find ways to get in touch with me, just search 'Spooky Sconnie Podcast' on social media. The twitter handle is @SpookySconnie, and then on facebook and instagram it's just Spooky Sconnie Podcast and you can see phone pictures of my husband wearing a cow head fake cowhead emphasis on fake. If you have anything you want to send me, you can do that at SpookySconniePodcast@gmail.com. Uh, as long as it's, you know, electronic. Don't try to put cookies in your email - it will not send edible cookies. Yeah, I think that's it. Um, if you like the show, please consider rating and subscribing. The ratings really help people find us. And it'd be Kinda cool to, like, be fancy causeI love being fancy and hanging out with some of my favorite podcasty people would be AMAZING. Oh, a quick shout out if you are looking for another podcast to listen to if you're just like so excited about learning about different places and you want to continue that and learn about whole different countries. Check out Nothing Rhymes With Murder. It is one of my favorite podcasts. The host are hilarious. They're funny. They're British, so I love listening to them talk anyway. And each episode they 'travel' to a different country and cover crimes in country. Sometimes it's murders, sometimes it's not, um, but then they'll also give you hot spots that are like somewhat close to where they are crimes occurred so that if you should happen to be going to know Ireland, then you could like checkout a cool place near Belfast where this crime happened. Like it's, it's really like 50 percent crime, 25 percent amazing banter and another 25 percent like travel show. It's basically my dream show. It's fine, it's the best. It's amazing. Um, so if you're looking for another great podcast, check that one out. And thanks for listening. Have an awesome day. And stay tuned for more creepy shit. You just listened to the Spooky Sconnie podcast. It is produced every two weeks by me, Kirsten Schultz. The intro, outro music is from Purple Plant. You can find show notes and more over at spookysconnie.podbean.com, including a transcript in case you missed anything. Take a minute and rate and subscribe if you can. You'll help more people see the show by rating and you won't miss a single episode if you subscribe, and that's pretty dope. You can support the show over at patreon.com/spookysconniepodcast and you can email me anything you'd like me to know at spookysconniepodcast@gmail.com. Meantime, sleep tight. Don't let the badgers. Bye.  

In this episode of the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast, writers Edmund White and Emily Temple talk to hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell about writers feuding with each other. Readings for the episode: ·      “25 Legendary Literary Feuds, Ranked,” by Emily Temple, Literary Hub.·      “YouTube, the Great Radicalizer,” by Zeynep Tufekci, The New York Times.·      The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading by Edmund White·      Caracole by Edmund White·      The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of Jose Robles by Stephen Koch·      “Ta-Nehisi Coates Deletes Twitter Account Amid Feud With Cornel West,” by Jennifer Schuessler, The New York Times.·      “Perchance to dream: In the age of images, a reason to write novels,” by Jonathan Franzen, Harper's Magazine. (paywall)·      “Why experimental fiction threatens to destroy publishing, Jonathan Franzen, and life as we know it: A correction,” by Ben Marcus (paywall)  Guests:·               Edmund White ·               Emily Temple  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A "grow light" for humans that cooks a guy's face. A pharmaceutical mist that puts you in the right mood for mourning the victims of terrorism. The year of All Hell Breaks Loose. The Year of the Sensor. Mudslides. Hurricanes. People who flee and people who stubbornly stay put. A terrible structure. A grand experiment. Creams and lotions that induce false prophecies. People who tumble into other people's marriages after they're dead. Every inch of the earth as a graveyard. More pharmaceuticals. Lives curated by drugs. The pills we swallow and the pills we reject. The way you never really know anybody. That's a quick trip through some of the images and ideas the writer Ben Marcus hits the reader with in Notes From the Fog, his latest collection of short stories. Reading them is like ingesting a powerful hallucinogen synthesized by a computer that's digested a good chunk of the Internet. They feel the way life these days often feels, but with its skin peeled off.​ ​Surprise conversation starter clips in this episode: ​Dickson DesPommier on vertical farming Ben Goertzel on artificial general intelligence Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ben Marcus is one of contemporary American fiction’s most masterful writers. His new book of short stories, Notes from the Fog (Granta), is an emotional handbook to the baffling times we live in; a cabinet of brain-rearranging stories which are both horrifyingly strange and deeply touching. From parent/child relationships thrown off kilter to scenarios of dependence and emotional crisis; from left-alone bodies to new scientific frontiers, Marcus is the a chronicler of the present uncanny and the peculiar future. He was in discussion with Eley Williams, author of Attrib. and Other Stories (Influx Press). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Moving between the starlight of Hollywood's golden age and the stardust that made Studio 54 sparkle in the 1970s, director Matt Tyrnauer's recent documentaries “Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood” and "Studio 54" capture sexual utopias before the dawn of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Moving between the two films in a wide ranging conversation, host Eric Newman and Tyrnauer riff on post-closet culture, the social absorption of economic and political changes, and the glimpses of freedom to be caught in these moments for the archive of American experience. Also, Ben Marcus drops in to recommend Catherine Lacey's most recent collection of stories Certain American States.

Moving between the starlight of Hollywood’s golden age and the stardust that made Studio 54 sparkle in the 1970s, director Matt Tyrnauer’s recent documentaries “Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood” and "Studio 54" capture sexual utopias before the dawn of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Moving between the two films in a wide ranging conversation, host Eric Newman and Tyrnauer riff on post-closet culture, the social absorption of economic and political changes, and the glimpses of freedom to be caught in these moments for the archive of American experience. Also, Ben Marcus drops in to recommend Catherine Lacey's most recent collection of stories Certain American States.

The realization that distance will always be present in even the most connected of people is one of the recurring themes in Rita Bullwinkel's spectacular debut story collection, BELLY UP (out now from A STRANGE OBJECT). Rita and James talk about spanning the real and the unreal, finding balance in sequencing, and loving stories where characters have tools to leave their bodies. Plus Dick Scanlan on RENASCENCE, the new musical featuring the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay.  -   Rita Bullwinkel: http://ritabullwinkel.com/ Rita and James discuss: Jill Meyers  A STRANGE OBJECT  AMERICAN SHORT FICTION  Vanderbilt University  Kelly Link  Diane Williams  ALTMANN'S TONGUE by Brian Evenson EVERYTHING RAVAGED, EVERYTHING BURNED by Wells Tower  COAST OF CHICAGO by Stuart Dybek Mills College  Center for New Music  PURE HOLLYWOOD by Christine Schutt  Blair School of Music  Mark Jarman  Michael Alec Rose  Ben Marcus  "Slatland" by Rebecca Lee  NEW AMERICAN SHORT STORIES  STORIES ON STAGE  - Dick Scanlon: http://www.playbill.com/production/renascence-abrons-arts-center-2018-2019 Dick and James discuss: MOTOWN: THE MUSICAL  Berry Gordy  EVERYDAY RAPTURE  Carmel Dean William Finn  Edna St. Vincent Millay  THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE  Steepletop  The Millay Colony  Edna St. Vincent Millay Society Holly Peppe  Danny Kornfeld  Kathleen Millay  Caroline B. Dow  Mikaela Bennett Norma Millay  Eugen Jan Bossevain  Elaine Ralli  Vassar  Donald Webber Jr.  Brett Banakis   - http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/

As one of today's featured authors is a celebrated sports blogger, it seems appropriate to begin by quoting legendary Chicago Cub Ernie Banks, "Let's Play Two!" Indeed, it's a Doubleheader today. First off, co-hosts Medea Ocher and Kate Wolf talk with Ben Marcus about his new collection, Notes from the Fog. Medea posits what she sees as a recurring theme in the stories, "Can we really know the people closest to us?" What follows is fascinating series of reflections on child raring, the banality of death, surreal realism, what makes a narrative compelling, and how Trump is undermining contemporary fiction. Then guest host Evan Kindley talks with Brian Phillips, one of our most celebrated non-fiction writers, about his new collection, Impossible Owls. While Brian initially gained notoriety and a huge fan base on the beloved-but-now-defunct Grantland website, which featured quality writing on sports; and he delighted millions with his puckish Tweets during the men's World Cup; he has now established himself as a master of long form reporting that is indistinguishable from the literary essay, through which he bares witness to our contemporary moment. In conversation with Evan, Brian opens up about his unorthodox career and inspired approach to his often-quirky subjects.

As one of today's featured authors is a celebrated sports blogger, it seems appropriate to begin by quoting legendary Chicago Cub Ernie Banks, "Let's Play Two!" Indeed, it's a Doubleheader today. First off, co-hosts Medea Ocher and Kate Wolf talk with Ben Marcus about his new collection, Notes from the Fog. Medea posits what she sees as a recurring theme in the stories, "Can we really know the people closest to us?" What follows is fascinating series of reflections on child raring, the banality of death, surreal realism, what makes a narrative compelling, and how Trump is undermining contemporary fiction. Then guest host Evan Kindley talks with Brian Phillips, one of our most celebrated non-fiction writers, about his new collection, Impossible Owls. While Brian initially gained notoriety and a huge fan base on the beloved-but-now-defunct Grantland website, which featured quality writing on sports; and he delighted millions with his puckish Tweets during the men's World Cup; he has now established himself as a master of long form reporting that is indistinguishable from the literary essay, through which he bares witness to our contemporary moment. In conversation with Evan, Brian opens up about his unorthodox career and inspired approach to his often-quirky subjects.

First Draft interview with Ben Marcus, author of Notes from the Fog

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. Since 2000 he has taught on the faculty at Columbia University's School of the Arts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Benjamin P. Marcus is the religious literacy specialist with the Religious Freedom Center of the Newseum Institute, where he examines the intersection of education, religious literacy, and identity formation in the United States. He has developed religious literacy programs for public schools, universities, U.S. government organizations, and private foundations, and he has delivered presentations on religion at universities and nonprofits in the U.S. and abroad. He has worked closely with the U.S. State Department, Interfaith Youth Core, the Foundation for Religious Literacy, and the Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme in the United Kingdom. In February 2018, Marcus was accepted as a Fulbright Specialist for a period of three years. As a Specialist, he will share his expertise on religion and education with select host institutions abroad. Marcus chaired the writing group for the Religious Studies Companion Document to the C3 Framework, a nationally recognized set of guidelines used by state and school district curriculum experts for social studies standards and curriculum development. He is a contributing author in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook on Religion and American Education, where he writes about the importance of religious literacy education. In 2015 he served as executive editor of the White Paper of the Sub-Working Group on Religion and Conflict Mitigation of the State Department's Religion and Foreign Policy Working Group. Marcus earned an MTS with a concentration in Religion, Ethics, and Politics as a Presidential Scholar at Harvard Divinity School. He studied religion at the University of Cambridge and Brown University, where he graduated magna cum laude.

Daniel Torday makes a triumphant return to talk about his new novel, BOOMER1. He and James chat about creating the world around the book, reinventing like Dylan, aspiring to anti-lyricism, and getting excited about liking stuff. They try to parse out a comic novel vs. a funny one and what constitutes satire. Plus, Emory Harkins discusses the mobile and now brick-and-mortar book store he co-founded and co-owns with Alexa Trembly, Twenty Stories.   - Daniel Torday: http://www.danieltorday.com/ Daniel and James Discuss:  David Crosby  THE RUMPUS  "Pretty Polly"  Fleet Foxes  Dirty Projectors  Dr. Dog  WXPM  "Superstitious" by Stevie Wonder  The Velvet Underground  PASTORALIA by George Saunders  MAGIC FOR BEGINNERS by Kelly Link  Junot Diaz  Karen Russell  David Foster Wallace  Flannery O'Connor  Bob Dylan William Faulkner  THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow  SEIZE THE DAY by Saul Bellow INFINITE JEST by David Foster Wallace  John Updike  Philip Roth  Netflix  TREE OF SMOKE by Denis Johnson  JESUS' SON by Denis Johnson  TRAIN DREAMS  RED CALVARY by Isaac Babel  Twenty Stories Bookstore   FLORIDA by Christine Schutt  THE AGE OF WIRE AND STRING by Ben Marcus  Aleksandar Hemon  BLOOD MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy  NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN by Cormac McCarthy  SUTTREE by Cormac McCarthy  James Joyce  ABSALOM, ABSALOM by William Faulkner  LIBRA by Don DeLillo  Dana Spiotta  Leonard Michaels  Grace Paley  Thomas Bernhard  Laszlo Krasznahorkai  Franz Kafka  Samuel Beckett  Jack Ruby  Lee Harvey Oswald The Titanic  Occupy Wall Street  ORLANDO by Virginia Woolf  WE ARE LEGION McSweeney's  DAWN OF THE DEAD dir George A. Romero  David Remnick  Fyodor Dostoevsky  YOUR DUCK IS YOUR DUCK by Deborah Eisenberg Lydia Davis  Dave Barry  Colson Whitehead  Rivka Galchen  OZARK  ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT  Gary Shteyngart  John Mulaney  Pitchfork  Mike Nichols & Elaine May  Dave Chappelle  Chris Rock  THE SOPRANOS  Alfred Hitchcock  Chris Farley  Jane Goodall  Harold Bloom  Lewis Hyde  Yaddo  Best American Short Stories  The O. Henry Prize Stories  Mary Gaitskill  ESQUIRE  "Messiah" by George Friderick Handel  Chris Thile  The Ramones  - TWENTY STORIES: https://www.twentystoriesla.com/ Emory and James discuss:  ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS by Hunter S. Thompson  Alexa Trembly Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra  DISQUIET AMERICAN SHORT FICTION  TWO DOLLAR RADIO  CURBSIDE SPLENDOR  THE DEEPER THE WATER, THE UGLIER THE FISH by Katya Apekina HALF OF A YELLOW SUN by Chimamanda Adichie COMEMADRE by Roque Larraquy, translated by Heather Cleary WHEN RAP SPOKE STRAIGHT TO GOD by Erica Dawson JESUS' SON by Denis Johnson WHITE GIRLS by Hilton Als  something bright, then holes by Maggie Nelson  - http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/

With the thirteen transfixing stories of Notes From the Fog, Ben Marcus gives us timely dystopian visions of alienation in a modern world--cosmically and comically apt. Never has existential catastrophe been so much fun. In "The Grow-Light Blues," a hapless, corporate drone finds love after being disfigured testing his employer's newest nutrition supplement--the enhanced glow from his computer monitor. A father finds himself outcast from his family when he starts to suspect that his son's precocity has turned sinister in the chilling "Cold Little Bird." In "Blueprints for St. Louis," two architects in a flailing marriage consider the ethics of artificially inciting emotion in mourners at their latest assignment--a memorial to a terrorist attack.  In the bizarre but instantly recognizable universe of Ben Marcus's fiction, characters encounter both surreal new illnesses and equally surreal new cures. Marcus writes beautifully, hilariously, and obsessively, about sex and death, lust and shame, the indignities of the body, and the full parade of human folly. A heartbreaking collection of stories that showcases the author's compassion, tenderness, and mordant humor. Blistering, beautiful work from a modern master.

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Ben Marcus, author of Notes From The Fog, his collection of short stories published August 27th by Knopf. When last we heard from Ben we were talking about his novel The Flame Alphabet, a book that in some ways, in my opinion, shares many of the characteristics as do some of these stories. As you may recall, Ben is the author of several books. As I mentioned The Flame Alphabet, The Age of Wire and String, Leaving The Sea and Notable American Women. His writing has appeared in Harpers, The New Yorker, the NYT and many other prestigious publications. He is the editor of New American Stories. He’a won three Pushcart Prizes. He’s a Guggenheim Fellow and has been a member of the Faculty of Columbia since 2000. Ok, that’s enough I guess. Notes from the Fog is a collection of stories about lots of people, all interesting and most of them sad or lost. A little boy who isn’t what he is supposed to be. And parents who are sad and angry that he turns into a child that they never expected . A man whose life is completely and utterly ruined by a corporate experiment grow horribly wrong. A lot of money involved. In fact a lot of money involved in many of the stories. A husband and wife architectural team whose marriage is not what it should be and whose designs reflect that to a certain extent. And also from where the title of this collection arises. A mother who then becomes the mother of her sister’s orphaned boys and in the meantime establishes an unusual relationship with those boys’ parents, revolving around a series of 200 dollar payments. A pill that will make you happy or not, but that just won’t stay down. And many others with equally troubling, sometimes distressing premises that lead to a feeling that you’ve just read something that might change your life or then again might not.

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Ben Marcus, author of Notes From The Fog, his collection of short stories published August 27th by Knopf. When last we heard from Ben we were talking about his novel The Flame Alphabet, a book that in some ways, in my opinion, shares many of the characteristics as do some of these stories. As you may recall, Ben is the author of several books. As I mentioned The Flame Alphabet, The Age of Wire and String, Leaving The Sea and Notable American Women. His writing has appeared in Harpers, The New Yorker, the NYT and many other prestigious publications. He is the editor of New American Stories. He’a won three Pushcart Prizes. He’s a Guggenheim Fellow and has been a member of the Faculty of Columbia since 2000. Ok, that’s enough I guess. Notes from the Fog is a collection of stories about lots of people, all interesting and most of them sad or lost. A little boy who isn’t what he is supposed to be. And parents who are sad and angry that he turns into a child that they never expected . A man whose life is completely and utterly ruined by a corporate experiment grow horribly wrong. A lot of money involved. In fact a lot of money involved in many of the stories. A husband and wife architectural team whose marriage is not what it should be and whose designs reflect that to a certain extent. And also from where the title of this collection arises. A mother who then becomes the mother of her sister’s orphaned boys and in the meantime establishes an unusual relationship with those boys’ parents, revolving around a series of 200 dollar payments. A pill that will make you happy or not, but that just won’t stay down. And many others with equally troubling, sometimes distressing premises that lead to a feeling that you’ve just read something that might change your life or then again might not.

Be focused! An stimulating conversation with Ben Marcus, Co-Founder & Chairman of Airmap which is the world’s leading airspace services platform for unmanned aircraft. AirMap has raised over $44 million dollars with backings from venerable firms such as General Catalyst, Microsoft, Sony, Airbus, Qualcomm. From humble beginnings as a flight instructor, flight engineer, co-founding the world’s largest light business jet sales company to now contributing heavily in the conversation of drone technology throughout the United States & the world, Ben’s journey has been spectacular! An exciting episode that talks about the future of drones in our society, the positive, the negative, being driven by passion, leading an industry, and the skills that have been the backbone of his success. An episode about our exciting future and advice from Ben about skills that young people can develop today to build that future.

Ben Marcus reads his story "Stay Down and Take It," from the May 28, 2018, issue of the magazine. Marcus has published two novels and two short-story collections, including "The Flame Alphabet" and "Leaving the Sea," which was shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. A new story collection, "Notes from the Fog," will be published in August.

Kanye West, cutting people from Facebook for not liking baby pictures, superhero movies vs. westerns, South Korean film, The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus, word viruses, rule-based movies, massive script doctoring of A Quiet Place, why would you have a baby post apocalypse, the intelligence of monsters, and a cliffhanger ending that could spell doom for the Almost Good podcast

Ben Marcus is the Founder & CEO @ Airmap, the startups that provides everything one needs to unlock and scale drone operations in the ever-changing world of airspace. They have raised over $40m in funding from industry heavyweights Sony, Rakuten, Qualcomm, Airbus Ventures and then also many friends of the show including Semil Shah, Lux Capital, Microsoft Ventures, General Catalyst, BullPen Capital and David Waxman at TenOneTen, just to name a few. Prior to AirMap, Ben co-founded and was CEO of the world’s largest light business jet sales company, Jetaviva and before that started his career as a flight instructor and later became a flight test engineer. Fun fact, Ben is also an FAA-certified Airline Transport Pilot and Flight Instructor with over 4,500 hours of flight experience. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Ben made his way into the world of startups and drones from being a pilot and flight test engineer? 2.) What does Ben think is a strong investment strategy when investing in the drones? What 4 categories present nascent opportunities to Ben? What elements of the tech stack should potential investors further drill down on with potential investments? 3.) Question from Hemant Taneja: How does Ben assess the presence and desires of Amazon and Google with their pre-existing mission to win the airspace? Question from Semil Shah: Does this lead to a world of consolidation and startup M&A by incumbents? 4.) What does Ben believe are the core catalysts that will take drones to 100s of millions of people? How does Ben assess the similarties and differences in serving enterprise vs consumer drone markets? Does Ben agree with Jonathan Downey in his expression that enterprises like "boring" offerings? 5.) How does Ben evaluate the hardware vs software paradigm in the drone market? Does Ben see the commoditisation of drone hardware in the coming years? How does Ben evaluate the likes of DJI with their prominence? Does the weaponisation of drones cause significant alarm for Ben? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Ben’s Fave Book: The Wealth of Nations Ben’s Fave Blog: Social Capital Newsletter As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Ben on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Snapchat here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. NatureBox Unlimited snack plans offer all you can eat snacks for one fixed price per employee. Naturebox use simple ingredients you can trust to create bold flavors you can’t find anywhere else. All NatureBox snacks are free from artificial junk and variety is endless with options from sweet or savory to vegan or gluten-free. Simply choose the plan that fits your team’s unique snacking habits and select any of NatureBox's time-saving add-on’s. And beyond Unlimited snacks, you’ll receive perks such as free kitchen setup, no contracts, a dedicated account manager and more. Simply click here to and use the offer code VC20 to get 20% of your first Naturebox month.  Leesa is the Warby Parker or TOMS shoes of the mattress industry. Leesa have done away with the terrible mattress showroom buying experience by creating a luxury premium foam mattress that is ordered completely online and ships for free to your doorstep. The 10-inch mattress comes in all sizes and is engineered with 3 unique foam layers for a universal, adaptive feel, including 2 inches of memory foam and 2 inches of a really cool latex foam called Avena, design to keep you cool. All Leesa mattresses are 100% US or UK made and for every 10 mattresses they sell, they donate one to a shelter. Go to Leesa.com to start the New Year with better nights sleep!  

Her Body and Other Parties (Graywolf Press) In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies. A wife refuses her husband's entreaties to remove the green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague slowly consumes humanity. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery within the seams of the store's prom dresses. One woman's surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted houseguest. And in the bravura novella "Especially Heinous," Machado reimagines every episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a show we naively assumed had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelgangers, ghosts, and girls with bells for eyes. Earthy and otherworldly, antic and sexy, queer and caustic, comic and deadly serious, Her Body and Other Parties swings from horrific violence to the most exquisite sentiment. In their explosive originality, these stories enlarge the possibilities of contemporary fiction. Praise for Her Body and Other Parties “The stories in Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange. Her voracious imagination and extraordinary voice beautifully bind these stories about fading women and the end of the world and men who want more when they’ve been given everything and bodies, so many human bodies taking up space and straining the seams of skin in impossible, imperfect, unforgettable ways.”—Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist and Hunger “Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties tells ancient fables of eros and female metamorphosis in fantastically new ways. She draws the secret world of the body into visibility, and illuminates the dark woods of the psyche. In these formally brilliant and emotionally charged tales, Machado gives literal shape to women's memories and hunger and desire. I couldn’t put it down.”—Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia! “Those of us who knew have been waiting for a Carmen Maria Machado collection for years. Her stories show us what we really love and fear.”—Alexander Chee, author of The Queen of the Night “Carmen Maria Machado writes a new kind of fiction: brilliant, blindingly weird, and precisely attuned to the perils and sorrows of the times.”—Ben Marcus, author of Leaving the Sea “Carmen Maria Machado has a vital, visceral, umbilical connection to the places deep within the soul from where stories emanate. With a tenderness that is both touching and terrifying, Her Body and Other Parties gives insight into a cluster of worlds linked by their depth of feeling and penetrating strangeness.”—Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine “Brilliantly inventive and blazingly smart, these stories have the life-and-death stakes of nightmares and fairy tales; they’re full of urgent, almost unbearable reality. Carmen Machado is an extraordinary writer, an essential voice.”—Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You “Her Body and Other Parties will delight you, hurt you, and astonish you as only the smartest literature can. In this collection Machado blends horror, fairy tale, pop culture and myth in mesmerizing ways that feel utterly new. These stories are peerless and brilliant.”—Alissa Nutting, author of Made for Love and Tampa “Carmen Maria Machado shuffles together fantastic, realistic, popular, and literary genres and then deals winning hand after winning hand. Whether it is reworking fairy tales, rewriting the entire run of Law and Order into a grim fantasy, or diving into unchartered territory entirely Machado's own, Her Body and Other Parties is a deft and thoughtful reclaiming of both literature and genre.”—Brian Evenson, author of A Collapse of Horses “Her Body and Other Parties is genius: part punk rock and part classical, with stories that are raw and devastating but also exquisitely plotted and full of delight. This is a strong, dangerous, and blisteringly honest book—it’s hard to think of it as a ‘debut,’ it's that good.”—Jeff VanderMeer, author of Borne “What Carmen Maria Machado has done with this collection is nothing less than stunning. Just when you think you’ve figured her out, she unveils another layer of story, so unexpected, so profound, it leaves you gasping.”—Lesley Nneka Arimah, author of What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky “With her lush, generative imagination, shimmering language, and utter fearlessness, Carmen Maria Machado is surely one of most ferociously gifted young writers working today. . . . Hilariously inventive, emotionally explosive, wonderfully sexy, Machado’s stories will carry you far from home, upend your reality, and sew themselves to your soul.”—Michelle Huneven, author of Blame and Off Course “Carmen Maria Machado is the way forward. Her fiction is fearlessly inventive, socially astute, sometimes pointed, sometimes elliptical, and never quite what you’re expecting—yet behind it you can always hear that ancient tale-teller’s voice, bartering for your attention with its dangers and its mysteries, its foolhardy characters pulled this way and that by the ropes of their emotions. . . . There is at once the breath of the new about these stories and the breath of the timeless.”—Kevin Brockmeier, author of The Brief History of the Dead “A form-bending fabulist in the tradition of Kevin Brockmeier, Kelly Link, and Karen Russell, she gleefully seeks out weird shapes and subjects for every story. . . . She writes uncanny, creepy, sexy, funny, feminist, magical-realist, metafictional, pop-cultural, and all-of-the-above stories, and she seems determined never to write the same story twice. Yet for all of its wildly inventive variety, Her Body and Other Parties is unified by the one story it keeps finding new ways to tell: how women can survive in worlds that want them to disappear, whether into marriage, motherhood, death, or (literally) prom dresses.”—Bennett Sims, author of A Questionable Shape  Carmen Maria Machado’s work has appeared in Granta, the New Yorker, NPR, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. She has been nominated for a Nebula Award and a Shirley Jackson Award, and was a finalist for the Calvino Prize. She lives in Philadelphia. You can visit her website at: www.carmenmachado.com  

Ben Marcus reads his story from the October 2, 2017, issue of the magazine. Marcus has published two novels and two story collections, including “The Flame Alphabet” and “Leaving the Sea,” which came out in 2014, and was shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award.

Sing the Song (Future Tense Books) After steadily garnering attention and gaining fans with her appearances in various magazines and websites, Meredith Alling comes out with her debut collection of stories, Sing the Song. For fans of writers like Diane Williams, Amy Hempel, Lydia Davis, Ben Marcus, and Amelia Gray, Alling’s debut will signal the arrival of a new unique voice in fiction. Featuring 27 stories in 100 pages, Alling’s collection is propulsive, dangerous, often funny, and powered by a language that wrestles with anxiety and the unexpected surrealism of modern life. With an ancient ham crawling out from a sewer to tell fortunes, a lone blonde at a party for redheads, and a mother outsmarting a masked criminal,Sing the Song bleeds and breathes with dreamlike surprise. Meredith Alling lives and works in Los Angeles. Her short fiction has appeared in Tin House, No Tokens, The Fanzine, Spork, The Guardian, and elsewhere.  Siel Ju's novel-in-stories, Cake Time, is the winner of the 2015 Red Hen Press Fiction Manuscript Award and will be published in April 2017. Siel is also the author of two poetry chapbooks. Her stories and poems appear in ZYZZYVA, The Missouri Review (Poem of the Week), The Los Angeles Review, Denver Quarterly, and other places.

Ben Marcus joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Mary Gaitskill’s “A Dream of Men,” from a 1998 issue of the magazine.

The Regional Office is Under Attack! (Riverhead Books) In a world beset by amassing forces of darkness, one organization the Regional Office and its coterie of super-powered female assassins protects the globe from annihilation. At its helm, the mysterious Oyemi and her oracles seek out new recruits and root out evil plots. Then a prophecy suggests that someone from inside might bring about its downfall. And now, the Regional Office is under attack.  Recruited by a defector from within, Rose is a young assassin leading the attack, eager to stretch into her powers and prove herself on her first mission. Defending the Regional Office is Sarah who may or may not have a mechanical arm fiercely devoted to the organization that took her in as a young woman in the wake of her mother's sudden disappearance. On the day that the Regional Office is attacked, Rose's and Sarah's stories will overlap, their lives will collide, and the world as they know it just might end.  Weaving in a brilliantly conceived mythology, fantastical magical powers, teenage crushes, and kinetic fight scenes, The Regional Office Is Under Attack!"is a seismically entertaining debut novel about revenge and allegiance and love. Praise for The Regional Office is Under Attack! “[A] wry and propulsive work of inventive fiction by a terrific young writer! Read it!”—Jess Walter, New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins “Delightfully weird, weirdly delightful! Manuel Gonzales clearly has a labyrinth of a brain—all stuffed with monsters, trapdoors, and complicated heroes. Sign me up as a member of the fan club, please.”—Kelly Link, author of Get in Troubleand Magic for Beginners “With exuberant prose and a corkscrew plot, Manuel Gonzales vanquishes artistic orthodoxies, tiresome genre boundaries and every humdrum narrative convention in sight, leaving in his wake a riveting story of secrets, betrayals, and vengeance!” —Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Battleborn and Gold Fame Citrus “[A]n exciting new voice."—Aimee Bender, The New York Times Book Review “It’s easy to compare Manuel Gonzales to George Saunders, but it would be just as easy to compare him to Borges or Márquez or Aimee Bender . . . He makes the extraordinary ordinary, and his playfulness is infectious.”—Benjamin Percy,Esquire “Manuel Gonzales has an imagination that's as expansive and open as a Texas prairie.”—Hector Tobar, Los Angeles Times “A brand-new American literary voice.”—Ben Marcus, author of The Flame Alphabet “The Regional Office is Under Attack! is wickedly subversive, suspenseful, and thoughtful, all at once—but most of all, it's just fun to read, from the first  sentence to the last. Put down your expectations and pick up this book.  It'll hit you like a lightning bolt.”—Jess Row, author of Your Face in Mine “Wild, visionary, ablaze with heart and riot, The Regional Office is Under Attack! is unforgettable—an epic love story that confronts our future with a howl and fireworks.”—Paul Yoon, author of Snow Hunters Manuel Gonzales is the author of the acclaimed story collection The Miniature Wife, winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and the John Gardner Fiction Book Award. A graduate of the Columbia University Creative Writing Program, he teaches writing at the University of Kentucky and the Institute for American Indian Arts. He has published fiction and nonfiction in Open City, Fence, One Story, Esquire, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, andThe Believer. Gonzales lives in Kentucky with his wife and two children. Jim Gavin’s fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Zoetrope, Esquire, Slice, The Mississippi Review, andZYZZYVA. He lives in Los Angeles.

Alexandra Kleeman is the guest. Her debut novel, You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, is available now from Harper. Alexandra is from Boulder, so we have that in common. Not that I'm "from" Boulder, but I did live there for eight years, went to college there, and so on. The feeling I came away with after talking to her is that she's an unusually kind person. She's one of those people who emanates goodness. Just sweet as could be. And behind that sweetness is a really fierce intelligence. Her book has been getting all kinds of raves, and Ben Marcus called it "the fiction of the future" or something along those lines, and he tends to be right about those kinds of things, so...a very promising start to a literary career. And I'm happy I got to talk with Alexandra just as things are getting under way.  In today's monologue I talk about the holidays. And jury duty. And then at the tail end of the show I talk about some movies I've seen recently.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tomanen "Flammealfabetet" av amerikanske Ben Marcus blir selve språket giftig - og dødelig. Er vi fortsatt mennesker hvis vi ikke kan kommunisere med hverandre?

Epigraph For our third episode, we interview Kevin Sampsell, bookseller at Powell’s Books in Portland, OR.    Introduction [0:30] In Which Emma & Kim Feel Like Literary Underachievers Compared to Kevin’s Many Bookish Pursuits, Then We Order Lifestyles [0:43] When he’s not bookselling at Powell’s Books, Kevin runs the small press Future Tense Books, along with their new ebook imprint Instant Future. He’s also the author of A Common Pornography: A Memoir and This is Between Us, as well as the editor of Portland Noir.      [1:13] Drink of the Day: The Lifestyle - Jameson Irish Whiskey and ginger ale (from Ablutions: Notes for a Novel by Patrick deWitt)   collage by Kevin Sampsell Chapter I In Which We Discuss Rad Trans & Queer Books, Talk About Customer Anti-Merchandizing Techniques, and Discover that Kevin is a Greasy Buddy Holly [2:35] Emma’s reading Witches of America by Alex Mar (pubs 20 Oct 2015)   [2:54] Kim’s reading Furiously Happy: A Funny Book about Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson (pubs 22 Sept 2015) Also mentioned: Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir) by Jenny Lawson [3:28] Trans/Queer books! The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson Trans: A Memoir by Juliet Jacques (pubs 22 Sept 2015) George by Alex Gino (pubs 25 Aug 2015) Please Don’t Kill the Freshman: A Memoir by Zoe Trope (Future Tense edition, here) Being by Zach Ellis     Also mentioned: the Tin House Writer’s Workshop, Bad Blood Reading Series [8:36] Kevin is reading SO MANY GOOD BOOKS RIGHT NOW The Revolution of Every Day by Cari Luna Savage Park: A Meditation on Play, Space, and Risk for Americans Who Are Nervous, Distracted, and Afraid to Die by Amy Fusselman Yet another shoutout to Lidia Yuknavitch: The Small Backs of Children and The Chronology of Water: A Memoir. Have you read her books yet? Just go do it. Right now. We’ll wait. Hollywood Notebook by Wendy C Ortiz (also mentioned: Excavation: A Memoir) Cult of Loretta by Kevin Maloney (also mentioned: Adam Wilson)     [14:37] August Releases!! The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Phillips The Scamp by Jennifer Pashley Voices in the Ocean: A Journey Into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins by Susan Casey Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh     Chapter II In Which Kevin Discusses Working at Powell’s (Largest Bookstore in the World?), The Power of Small Presses, and Publishing E-Books [20:58] Powell’s City of Books Store Map [23:46] White Elephants: On Yard Sales, Relationships, and Finding What Was Missing by Katie Haegele [24:20] Weirde Sister by James Gendron (coming 2016 from Octopus Books - check out an excerpt to get psyched) [24:39] Sexual Boat (Sex Boats) by James Gendron [32:56] Some authors that have moved between Small Presses and Big Publishers: Alissa Nutting - Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls, Tampa Lindsay Hunter - Daddy’s, Don’t Kiss Me, Ugly Girls Maggie Nelson - Bluets     Small Presses Mentioned: Starcherone, Featherproof, Wave [36:10] Future Tense’s e-book imprint Instant Future [36:44] Starvation Mode by Elissa Washuta (author of My Body is a Book of Rules) Chapter III In Which We Talk About Even More Awesome August Releases, Kevin Observing Customers Buying His Book, Author Crushes, and MORE BOOKS [40:22] More August Releases: Dome of the Hidden Pavilion: New Poems by James Tate New American Stories, edited by Ben Marcus (who previously edited The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories)     Pro-tip: the bathroom at Powell’s is upstairs in the Purple Room. Now you know. [44:05] Kevin’s Go-To Handsells A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews (available in paperback Jan 2016) Stories in the Worst Way by Gary Lutz     Also mentioned: All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews, Home Land by Sam Lipsyte [46:57] Kevin’s Impossible Handsells Tiger, Tiger by Margaux Fragoso Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures by Phoebe Gloeckner     Also mentioned: George Saunders, Lydia Davis, Barry Hannah, Donald Ray Pollock [48:45] How to Keep Up with ALL the Books?     [49:00] Reading Backlist: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury [49:30] Short chapters: Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill [50:17] Kevin’s Station Eleven/Wild/Desperate Desert Island Books books Stories in the Worst Way by Gary Lutz The Age of Wire and String by Ben Marcus Sorrow Arrow by Emily Kendal Frey Sharon Olds (author of Stag’s Leap)     [Collage by Kevin Sampsell, using the cover of Sorrow Arrow by Emily Kendal Frey] [52:07] Kevin’s Favorite Bookstores (other than Powell’s) Skylight Books in Los Angeles, CA McNally Jackson in New York City, NY Reading Frenzy in Portland, OR [52:46] Kevin’s Favorite Literary Media OTHERPPL with Brad Listi Podcast (Kevin was on Episode 227) Noon Literary Annual [53:50] Last Book Kevin Gifted: Do It Yourself Guide To Fighting the Big Motherfuckin Sad by Adam Gnade Also mentioned: Dear Shane: a Mental Health Resource About Staying Alive by Craig Kelly Epilogue In Which Kevin Tells Us All the Places YOU Can Find Him On the Internets Website: www.kevinsampsell.com Twitter: @kevinsampsell Collage Tumblr: kevinsampsellcollages.tumblr.com Future Tense Books: www.futuretensebooks.com Instant Future Books: www.thisisinstantfuture.com Find Emma on Twitter @thebibliot and writing nerdy bookish things for Book Riot. Kim occasionally tweets at @finaleofseem. And you can follow both of us [as a podcast] on Twitter @drunkbookseller!       Okay, don’t forget to subscribe using your podcatcher of choice and hey maybe rate us if you like the show. Mmmkay byeee.

We decided to try something new on the Laser this week and so invited two artists - musician Billy Liar www.billyliarmusic.com/ and designer Emily Millichip http://www.emilymillichip.com - to discuss their unfinished projects with us. Also we're featuring our interview with novelists Ben Marcus and Mark Z Danielewski that we recorded last year in the stacks of the Mitchell Library at the Aye Write festival in Glasgow. Culture Laser acknowledges the financial support of Creative Scotland for its 2014 season. Presented by Ryan Van Winkle and produced by Colin Fraser of Culture Laser Productions http://www.culturelaser.com @culturelaser

Host Gil Mansergh has a special treat for our KRCB listening audience, as we welcome the return of the truly original writer Ben Marcus on this Word By Word: Conversations With Writers on North Bay Public Media, KRCB-FM. Regular listeners should recall that Ben took time off from his job as a professor in Columbia University’s School of Arts a couple years ago, to share insights into the familiar yet unsettlingly different reality of the North America detailed in his spectacular novel The Flame Alphabet. Already holding many literary awards, since we last met, Ben was awarded a 2013 Berlin Prize and a Guggenheim fellowship in fiction. This Word By Word conversation focuses on Ben’s latest book - a collection of decidedly different short stories unlike any others you have read before. They have been gathered together under the title Leaving the Sea.

Ben Marcus came to St. Franics College to read from his new book, The Flame Alphabet. He is the seventh speaker in the Walt Whitman Writers Series which brings top contemporary authors to St. Francis to share their work and writing experiences with students, faculty and the entire Brooklyn community.

Ben Marcus talks to Christian Lorentzen about his novel The Flame Alphabet, as well as previous works The Age of Wire and String and Notable American Women. Topics covered include online fiction magazines, mathematics, creating a religion, why writing courses are unfairly criticised, the influence of Borges, encyclopaedias as a source of literary delight and ‘Reader’s Cream’, a lotion Marcus is developing to improve reader sensitivity. Marcus’s latest book is Leaving the Sea. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On today's show we talk to author Ben Marcus. An Associate Professor at Columbia, Ben's work has appeared in Harper's, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Times, and many other publications, and he's won numerous awards including an NEA Fellowship. Ben's also penned four fantastic books: The Father Costume, The Age of Wire and String, Notable American Women, and his latest, The Flame Alphabet, which was just released last year by Alfred A. Knopf.Last week, Ben was nice enough to come to the Wrestling Team apartment and have a wonderfully fun discussion about shaming yourself into making art, woodworking and parental failures. It was a delight!Subscribe on iTunes and follow Andy and Mark on Twitter! See a live episode on March 5th at UCB East at 8pm with author/performer Dave Hill, Ilana Glazer (and maybe Abbi Jacobson) of Broad City and more!

From Gulliver’s Travels to 1984, dystopian visions have shaped literary fiction. Why do these flights of fancy influence our reality? How does science respond to these futuristic imaginings? Ben Marcus, author of the remarkable The Flame Alphabet, discusses the interplay of science and fiction as it shapes our future with psychologist Dr Charles Fernyhough, who specialises in child development, memory and hallucinations. This is a live recording of the discussion, chaired by Jennifer Wild, which took place at the 2012 Edinburgh International Book Festival. Supported by the Wellcome Trust.

From Gulliver’s Travels to 1984, dystopian visions have shaped literary fiction. Why do these flights of fancy influence our reality? How does science respond to these futuristic imaginings? Ben Marcus, author of the remarkable The Flame Alphabet, discusses the interplay of science and fiction as it shapes our future with psychologist Dr Charles Fernyhough, who specialises in child development, memory and hallucinations. This is a live recording of the discussion, chaired by Jennifer Wild, which took place at the 2012 Edinburgh International Book Festival. Supported by the Wellcome Trust.

Lorin Stein is the guest.  He is the editor of The Paris Review and the co-editor (with Sadie Stein) of a new anthology called Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story, now available from Picador Paperback Originals.  From the Editors' Note: Some chose classics. Some chose stories that were new even to us. Our hope is that this collection will be useful to young writers, and to others interested in literary technique. Most of all, it is intended for readers who are not (or are no longer) in the habit of reading short stories. We hope these object lessons will remind them how varied the form can be, how vital it remains, and how much pleasure it can give. And Publishers Weekly says: A selection of fiction culled from the influential journal’s archive with a twist: writers often featured in the journal’s pages—Lorrie Moore, David Means, Ann Beattie, Wells Tower, Ali Smith, among others— offer brief critical analyses of their selections, elevating this book from a greatest hits anthology to a kind of mini-M.F.A. Sam Lipsyte’s take on Mary Robison’s “Likely Lake” is as much a demonstration of the economy of powerful writing as the story itself and Ben Marcus’s tribute to Donald Barthelme’s “magician... language” in “Several Garlic Tales” illustrates how learning can occur when one writer inhabits another writer’s mind to geek out over what they both love. Monologue topics:  certainty, uncertainty, strong thinkers, certainty about uncertainty, uncertainty about certainty, the articulation of confusion, a posture of cosmic ambivalence. Please remember to subscribe to the show over at iTunes, or at Stitcher. It's free. Or just push PLAY below. Like the podcast? Please take a moment to rate and review it on iTunes. Thank you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Mark Lawson. Novelist Toby Litt reviews David Cronenberg's new film Cosmopolis, based on the novel by Don DeLillo. It stars Twilight's Robert Pattinson as a billionaire cocooned in his limousine, crossing Manhattan to get a haircut. Janet Suzman has played most of the major theatrical roles for women, including Cleopatra, Ophelia, Shaw's Saint Joan and Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. Now she has published a book, Not Hamlet, in which she reflects on the 'frail position of women in drama', arguing that they do not enjoy the same status as their male counterparts. A major new exhibition called Invisible: Art of the Unseen includes plans for an architecture of air and a pair of blank canvases entitled Magic Ink. Richard Cork reviews this unexpected collection of works. American writer Ben Marcus talks about his new novel, The Flame Alphabet, a dystopian story about an epidemic hitting America - the sound of children's speech has become lethal. Producer Dymphna Flynn.

The Flame Alphabet and The Vanishers

What if language turned on its human users? Ben Marcus his novel, a dark story about language and the breakdown of language.

Sam interviews Ben Marcus author of "The Flame Alphabet". Listen as Sam and Ben discuss Ben's new novel about how far we will go, and the sorrows we will endure, in order to protect our families.

What if the words your children spoke to you actually made you sick? Physically sick. And what if the children themselves relished in this newfound power over their parents? This is the setting of Ben Marcus’ new dystopian novel The Flame Alphabet. Ben Marcus is Chair of Creative Writing at Columbia University and the author of […] The post Ben Marcus : The Flame Alphabet appeared first on Tin House.

The Flame Alphabet (Knopf) Ben Marcus (Notable American Women) will read and sign his highly anticipated new novel, The Flame Alphabet. In The Flame Alphabet, the most maniacally gifted writer of our generation delivers a work of heartbreak and horror, a novel about how far we will go, and the sorrows we will endure, in order to protect our families. A terrible epidemic has struck the country and the sound of children's speech has become lethal. Radio transmissions from strange sources indicate that people are going into hiding. All Sam and Claire need to do is look around the neighborhood: In the park, parents wither beneath the powerful screams of their children. At night, suburban side streets become routes of shameful escape for fathers trying to get outside the radius of affliction. With Claire nearing collapse, it seems their only means of survival is to flee from their daughter, Esther, who laughs at her parents' sickness, unaware that in just a few years she, too, will be susceptible to the language toxicity. But Sam and Claire find it isn't so easy to leave the daughter they still love, even as they waste away from her malevolent speech. On the eve of their departure, Claire mysteriously disappears, and Sam, determined to find a cure for this new toxic language, presses on alone into a world beyond recognition. The Flame Alphabet invites the question: What is left of civilization when we lose the ability to communicate with those we love? Both morally engaged and wickedly entertaining, a gripping page-turner as strange as it is moving, this intellectual horror story ensures Ben Marcus's position in the first rank of American novelists. "Language kills in Marcus's audacious new work of fiction, a richly allusive look at a world transformed by a new form of illness . . . Biblical in its Old Testament sense of wrath, Marcus's novel twists America's quotidian existence into something recognizable yet wholly alien to our experience." --Publishers Weekly (Starred review and Pick of the week) "Echoes of Ballard's insanely sane narrators, echoes of Kafka's terrible gift for metaphor, echoes of David Lynch, William Burroughs, Robert Walser, Bruno Schulz and Mary Shelley: a world of echoes and re-echoes--I mean 'our' world--out of which the sanely insane genius of Ben Marcus somehow manages to wrest something new and unheard of. And yet as I read The Flame Alphabet, late into the night, feverishly turning the pages, I felt myself, increasingly, in the presence of the classic." --Michael Chabon Ben Marcus is the author of three books of fiction: Notable American Women, The Father Costume, and The Age of Wire and String, and he is the editor of The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories. His stories have appeared in Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, McSweeney's, Tin House, and Conjunctions. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, and awards from the Creative Capital Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in New York City and Maine. THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS FEBRUARY 2, 2012

"I like the idea of making the religious transaction more difficult."

Ben Marcus is today's guest.  He's the author of four books of fiction, the most recent of which is the critically acclaimed novel The Flame Alphabet, now available from Knopf. "Think again," writes Fiona Maazel at Book Forum.  "[The Flame ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week: Musical duo Chairlift offers us a martini (and some music)…Megadeth politely shreds our etiquette questions…Author-du-jour Ben Marcus says words CAN break your bones…Antonio Banderas plays kitty and creepy…A soldier lost and found – 28 years later…Plus, the latest in men’s fashion, epic Sundance flops, and a joke from crime writer Robert Crais.

Ben Marcus reads Kazuo Ishiguro's "A Village After Dark," and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. "A Village After Dark" was published in the May 21, 2001, issue of The New Yorker. Ben Marcus's upcoming book, "The Flame Alphabet," will be published in 2012.

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Ben Marcus, a younger member of the avant-garde, talks about some of the devices that have structured his books...