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Penguin has the paperback in hand. It hits the UK shelves March 25. Right now at Penguin’s site you can sign up to win one of ten copies they are giving away.
Filed under Uncategorized | Comment (0)New Short Fiction
Good news today. I’ve had a story accepted by The Evansville Review.
“Randy Randall” is about an office misanthropist and his run-in with a new hire, the titular Randy Randall.
Authors who have appeared in The Evansville Review include Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike, and TC Boyle. Not bad company. Vol. XX of the journal will contain my story. It will come out in late April.
Read “Randy Randall” online below or try your luck with RandyRandall.mobi, for your Kindle.
Filed under Earnest News, On Writing | Comment (0)On Reading DeLillo’s Libra
In Don Delillo’s Libra, all the men are of the same ilk to an extent that isn’t believable. They all seem shaped by DeLillo’s masculine sensibility. They are all in ¾ profile, or less. There’s a whole domain of feeling that none of them experience—or, being a domain, I should say “enter.” None enters it, this domain of feeling. It’s a place, broadly put, of vulnerable, soft emotions. (Believe me, I never thought this kind of thing would be my literary crusade.) Continue reading »
Filed under On Reading, On Writing | Comment (0)28 Things
A story of mine, “28 Things About the Beast,” appears in the October 2009 issue of Qwerty, a Canadian journal.
It’s a fluffy little number. It’s literary merangue. Read it online.
Benjamin Obler is the author of Javascotia, a novel from Penguin Books UK.
