After seeing today’s cloudburst in New York City tear down a huge tree, snap it into splinters, this definition of “rain”, found in Ben Marcus’s The Age of Wire and String (I’m rereading it, now), strikes me as apt: “Hard, shiny silver object, divided into knives and used for cutting procedures. Most rain dissolves within [...]
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Rain, I don’t mind.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ben Marcus, The Age of Wire and String on September 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Guest Post, by Lance Olsen: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ben Marcus, Lance Olsen, The Age of Wire and String on May 5, 2010 | 3 Comments »
RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do full harm to our busy minds and properly dispose our listeners to a pain they have never dreamed of. –From Ben Marcus’s The Age of Wire and String.
Ben Marcus (and others) Reading in NYC, November 11, 2009
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Atmospheric Disturbances, Ben Marcus, David Samuels, Notable American Women, Only Love Can Break Your Heart, Rivka Galchen, The Age of Wire and String, The Father Costume on November 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Harper’s Magazine Presents: The Family Table with Rivka Galchen, Ben Marcus, and David Samuels To coincide with Thanksgiving, Harper’s Magazine presents a reading with its contributors on the theme of “the Family Table”—eating, fighting, anguish, and the American form of gratitude. Featuring selections from the magazine and new work by the writers Rivka Galchen, author [...]
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