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Ben Marcus is the author of Notable American Women and The Age of Wire and String. His work has appeared in Grand Street, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, Conjunctions, and elsewhere. The recipient of two Pushcart Prizes, a Whiting Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts grant, he is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Columbia University and lives in New York City.

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The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories

Edited by Ben Marcus

Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 10, 2004
Price: $15.00

“In twenty-nine separate but ingenious ways, these stories seek permanent residence within a reader. They strive to become an emotional or intellectual cargo that might accompany us wherever, or however, we go. . . . If we are made by what we read, if language truly builds people into what they... Read more >

The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories

Edited by Ben Marcus

Format: eBook, 496 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.00

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Notable American Women
A Novel
Written by Ben Marcus

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 19, 2002
Price: $15.00

Ben Marcus achieved cult status and gained the admiration of his peers with his first book, The Age of Wire and String. With Notable American Women he goes well beyond that first achievement to create something radically wonderful, a novel set in a world so fully imagined that it creates its... Read more >

Notable American Women
A Novel
Written by Ben Marcus

Format: eBook, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.00

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