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	Ben Marcus Explores Silent World in Acclaimed New Book, 'Notable American Women'
		If you were to talk to Ben Marcus, assistant professor of writing in the School of the Arts, you would probably find him to be well-mannered, articulate, self-assured and generally at peace with the world around him.
		Marcus uses his own name for the novel's protagonist, thus creating the easy assumption that there is much of himself in the troubled character who narrates the bulk of the story.
		Ben Marcus, the writer, insists he had a "great childhood." The dystopia he invents is something born out of his long fascination with child rearing and development.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/news/02/03/benMarcus.html (971 words)

	unextraordinary.com: (damaged boys) 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Ben was a little jealous of Marcus' natural looks...his relaxed style and his delicious masculinity, but spending twice a week in the gym with him was more than enough to make up for it.
		Marcus had been tossing and turning all night worried about the same stupid stuff he'd always worried about: finances, his family and doing what was expected of him.
		Ben had never asked him what he was doing that weekend, who he was dating or where he was going.
	www.unextraordinary.com /archives/2004/11/damaged_boys_5.html (708 words)

	Denise Shannon. Literary Agency
		Witnessing (and subjected to) their cultish actions is one Ben Marcus, whose father, Michael Marcus, may be buried in the back yard, and whose mother, Jane Marcus, enthusiastically condones the use of her son for (generally unsuccessful) breeding purposes, among other things.
		"Ben Marcus has been accused of redesigning the ordinary sentence, of emptying words of their meaning and injecting them with new, of treating grave matters (such as family and humankind in general) with farcical disrespect, and of blowing away traditional narrative structures with a diabolical wind.
		Marcus investigates -- with equal passion -- the intricacies of a new mythology alongside the intimacies of a broken family.
	www.deniseshannonagency.com /projects/notablewomen.htm (515 words)

	Gadfly Online.
		Ben Marcus’s latest book Notable American Women (Vintage) is often described as "strange." And certainly, in a world where "strange" is becoming increasingly difficult to apply with any conviction, Mr.
		Ben Marcus: Summarizing Notable American Women always seemed dishonest to me, because I didn’t know what structure the book was going to take until just before I finished it.
		While this book is obviously not all that autobiographical, I ask because the "Ben Marcus life project" doesn't seem that far off from what some highly educated parents subject their children to.
	www.gadflyonline.com /04-22-02/book-marcus.html (2056 words)

	An Inter(e)view with Ben Marcus
		Marcus responded that this was explicitly not his intention, pointing to reviewers' notorious tendency to read rotely.
		I also asked Marcus about the health of innovative fiction at this cultural moment, and about the importance of distinguishing the novel from shorter forms, since AWS exclusively employs vignettes or indistinctly defined "stories." "My theory is really pretty simple: to light literal fires in the heads and homes of my readers," he responded.
		Marcus is currently working on another book project, under the title, "Notable American Women." In the meantime, readers can ruminate on the eerie machinations of AWS's self-generated world and its highly original rendering of American life.
	www.electronicbookreview.com /thread/wuc/disruptive (1141 words)

	CONTEXT: Christine Hume Reading Ben Marcus
		Reading Ben Marcus's work is not a matter of standing safely outside it; instead, readers must accept the dangers of entering into a new language world.
		Marcus began this project with his first book The Age of Wire and String, which carries through the promise of its epigraph, "Every word was once an animal." In The Age, Marcus's words breed, evolve and interact with us.
		Marcus loads well-known (scientific, religious, and historic) authoritative discourse with surprising content, but does not do so in order to expose the inherent subjectivity in all scientific modes, rather he coerces the subjective to reveal its objectivity.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /context/no8/hume.html (1987 words)

	Failbetter.com \| Ben Marcus
		Ben was kind enough to speak with failbetter about his latest work and the work involved behind it.
		Marcus: If "successful" writer means that I earn a living at it, then I’m not very successful, which is mostly why I teach, to earn a living and have health insurance, to buy some time for writing.
		Marcus: This might all be dull stuff to talk about, the way I beat myself up, the way I slowed down my progress, the strategies I had for failing.
	www.failbetter.com /03/Marcus.htm (2257 words)

	Hospitality Net - Industry News - Ben D. Marcus, Founder of The Marcus Corporation, Philanthropist, Dies at 89
		Marcus believed that movies as entertainment had staying power and over the years, his philosophy and the strength of his commitment were proven to be correct.
		Marcus was the only bidder at the auction, and made up his mind he would take on the daunting task of restoring the Pfister, which was originally built in 1893.
		Ben Marcus is survived by his son Stephen (Joan), his daughter Diane (Hal) Gershowitz; his grand children: Greg (Linda) Marcus, David (Melina) Marcus and Andrew Marcus; Dan, Larry and Jill Kite; Amy (Andrew) Lask and Michael (Jennifer) Gershowitz and great grandchildren, Alexandra, Michael and Gabriella Marcus, and Jennifer and Samantha Lask and Jared Gershowitz.
	www.hospitalitynet.org /news/4006733.html (1983 words)

	A titan in movies and the community Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Ben Marcus was responsible for building the company that now boasts the 15th-largest movie theater chain in the country.
		Ben Marcus also "would brook no intolerance" and was an early leader in civil rights causes, from integrating the Marcus Corp. work force to sponsoring Milwaukee's Martin Luther King Day celebrations, Silberg said.
		Ben Marcus recalled his first sighting of the Statue of Liberty: "As the boat approached, it was bedlam.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4196/is_20001226/ai_n10644385 (886 words)

	Marcus Corporation
		Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wis., The Marcus Corporation is a leader in the lodging and entertainment industries.
		Marcus Theatres® ranks among the top 10 motion picture exhibitors in North America, with locations in major markets in the Midwest.
		Marcus Hotels and Resorts owns and manages a distinctive portfolio of full-service hotel properties that are leaders in their markets.
	www.marcuscorp.com (230 words)

	The latest "difficult books" essay in Harper's. By Jess Row - Slate Magazine
		We might expect Marcus to point out that Franzen's essay is a caricature of this very old debate, and that in other contexts Franzen has shown himself to be extremely reluctant to label himself a popular author—notably, his confessed ambivalence at having been named an Oprah writer.
		Instead, Marcus treats us to a humorless diatribe, as if he and Franzen had invented their respective positions and were obliged to defend them like nuggets of newly panned gold.
		Marcus is justified in criticizing a publishing industry, and a culture, that often recycles the same ideas and stories while ignoring writers whose work is too unpleasant, or destabilizing, or unsympathetic to be absorbed at a glance.
	www.slate.com /id/2128405 (1330 words)

	Anchor Catalog \| Notable American Women by Ben Marcus
		Ben Marcus achieved cult status and gained the admiration of his peers with his first book, The Age of Wire and String.
		Marcus investigates—with equal passion—the intricacies of a new mythology alongside the intimacies of a broken family.
		Ben Marcus is author of a novel, Notable American Women, to be published by Vintage in March, and a book of stories, The Age of Wire and String.
	www.randomhouse.com /anchor/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375713781 (1100 words)

	The Richmond Review, Book Review, The Age of Wire and String by Ben Marcus
		For Marcus, that is, the 'actual' universe we inhabit, haunted by loss and death, is bad more often than not.
		Ben Marcus has fashioned a style with which to write about the unthinkable.
		Marcus' language -- cold, abstract -- distances him and the reader from the death.
	www.richmondreview.co.uk /books/ageofwir.html (448 words)

	"The Father Costume" by Ben Marcus - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Ben Marcus is the author of two novels, "The Age of Wire and String" and "Notable American Women."
		Ritchie's illustrations blend scientific diagramming with vivid, colorful renderings of the apocalypse, while Marcus' prose dissects the inner workings of two boys caught out at sea with a father whose costumes grow increasingly menacing.
		Ben Marcus read from "The Father Costume" at KGB Bar in New York recently, as part of the bar's Monday Night Poetry series.
	dir.salon.com /story/audio/fiction/2002/12/03/ben_marcus/print.html (228 words)

	Ben Marcus - UWM SBA
		The Marcus Foundation donated a major gift in 1986 toward the construction of a 25,000 seat open-air facility in the Henry W. Maier Festival Park on the lakefront, which was then named the Marcus Amphitheater, in his honor.
		Marcus, who emigrated to the United States at age 14, began a career in entertainment and hospitality in 1935 by opening a movie theater in Ripon, Wisconsin, expanding thereafter into the Fox Valley.
		Marcus retired as chairman of the board of the Marcus Corporation in 1992.
	www.uwm.edu /Dept/Business/alumni/gallery/marcus.html (356 words)

	Ben Marcus' recent Harper's article calling task Jonathon Franzen
		I think Marcus is essentially right, but he wrote at such excruciating length and in such largely drab prose that he came across as as big a whiner as Franzen.
		And as for the Ben Marcus article, I looked it over very briefly before heading for the crossword puzzle and, while I'm sure I agree with what I believe his message to be, I couldn't be arsed to actually read it, so I say JtN OTM.
		Marcus was nice to Munro, yeah, but so was Franzen.
	ilx.wh3rd.net /thread.php?msgid=6282964 (1746 words)

	village voice > books > Ben Marcus Notable American Women by Richard B. Woodward
		Marcus has a B.A. in philosophy from NYU (along with an M.F.A. from Brown, where he studied with John Hawkes), and the pedantic wigginess of his texts can make them read like A.J. Ayer after a nervous breakdown.
		The father opens the book by objecting strenuously to the version of events we are about to read from his son, and his enraged mother brings things to a rousing finish with a vicious attack on her weak, ineffectual husband.
		As her son, Ben has been subjected to a strict upbringing that includes "gymnastics against emotion" and "cleaning duty at the fainting tank." Caught in the middle between parents who loathe each other, and none too keen about the chaste regime of the Silentists, he has struggled to move forward.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0210/woodward.php (1258 words)

	Amazon.com: The Age of Wire and String: Stories (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)): Books: Ben Marcus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The shockingly abstract terms Marcus uses to describe our intimate selves ("the condition of corpse is achieved with a lotion, usually") mock our attempts to understand and explain away our bodies and the things that happen to them.
		Marcus, I believe, is one of the most talented of our contemporary writers,and this is a book that could benefit from academic scrutiny in classes of literature, physics, or anthropology.
		The term "avant-guarde" is meant to refer to people who are ahead of their time, and not merely eccentric or subversive, and Ben Marcus is one of the few writers who writes with enough clarity, precision, and exactitude to be genuinely accredited with that title.
	www.amazon.com /Age-Wire-String-American-Literature/dp/1564781968 (2186 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Age of Wire and String: Books: Ben Marcus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Words are detached from their conventional meanings, syntax is choppy and frequently highly ambiguous, and it is often difficult to discern quite what the subject of each chapter (or prose poem, of sorts) might be.
		It soon becomes clear that, although to a great extent Marcus' apparent purpose is at least initially to disorientate the reader, the new meanings of his words do seem to have fairly fixed meanings.
		That is to say, they tend always to be used in similar ways with other similarly dislocated words, such that "Thompson" comes to denote some sort of godhead, "weather" a threat, a fear of violence or of exposure, and "the family" a subterranean refugee race.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Age-Wire-String-Ben-Marcus/dp/000655086X (463 words)

	Ben Marcus, Writer
		For each Thompson, there exist flammable outcrops or limbs which rub onto the larger body of Thompson (Perkins), rendering morning fires and emberage that lights the sky and advances the time of a given society or culture.
		Ben Marcus was born in Chicago in 1967.
		Presently Ben lives in Providence, where he is a lecturer in creative writing at Brown University.
	webdelsol.com /marcus (287 words)

	Powells.com Interviews - Ben Marcus
		Ben Marcus: I think it does, though I don't know what those principles are.
		Ben's story had to go in between to create a kind of stretcher.
		Marcus: I've recently come around on the prose of Rick Moody, in particular the recent short fiction.
	www.powellsbooks.com /authors/marcusb.html (3472 words)

	Dalkey Archive Press: Ben Marcus
		In The Age of Wire and String, hailed by Robert Coover as "the most audacious literary debut in decades," Ben Marcus welds together a new reality from the scrapheap of the past.
		Ben Marcus is a one-of-a-kind stand-up phenom, a comic writer of power and originality.
		"Marcus proves himself a renegade philosopher/writer who twists language until it bleeds new meaning, and in the process creates a truly audacious and wholly original view of life and the linguistic structures which give it substance.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /dalkey/backlist/marcus.html (548 words)

	Ben Marcus
		Throughout Ben Marcus’ fiction, it is evident that his gaze as a writer is focused as much on how we go about telling a story, as the story itself.
		We are not just living, he seems to reflect in his books, but building our lives from thimbles as much as anecdotes, from tin cans as much as gene pools, from crumpled newspaper as much as the conversations we share each day.
		It might be said then that Marcus’ fiction is often as much about what we try to see, as what we cannot see, or better yet, what we might see if we just looked hard enough or specifically through his eyes.
	www.english.buffalo.edu /exhibitx/Marcus.htm (436 words)

	Ben Marcus Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		In an Ohio of the future, young Ben Marcus (the author's name as well) is being raised in a radical commune run by the "Silentists," a sect that seeks to eliminate the emotional content of a human being.
		But Ben's narrative reveals him as a boy who is unable to cease to feel--and who is stifled by the repressive world in which he is forced to live.
		A debut collection of stories in which author Ben Marcus experimentally catalogues a culture made up of things familiar to our senses.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Ben_Marcus (520 words)

	WAG: Ben Marcus's Notable American Women
		Marcus (whose previous book is The Age of Wire and String) certainly has his illustrious forebears.
		While his father is briefly present, he is exiled to the backyard (he may even be buried there), and Ben is left to cope with Jane Dark's cult of Silentists as best he can on his own.
		he real Ben Marcus is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Columbia University, and as the publicity material that accompanied my review copy helpfully points out, he grew up in a happy family and has never been to Ohio.
	www.thewag.net /books/marcus.htm (898 words)

	News :: WKOW 27 - Madison, Wisconsin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Doctor Ben Marcus chose medicine as a career to change peoples' lives.
		Ben traveled with three other surgeons, four nurses and four translators, all of whom paid there own way there, to operate on children with facial deformities for free.
		The five days were far from a normal day for ben, but it's an experience he wants to do as long as he can.
	www.wkowtv.com /index.php/news/story/p/pkid/24072 (330 words)

	Mad Hatters' Review - Issue 4 - C.B. SMITH Interviews BEN MARCUS
		In this interview, I decided to quiz Ben Marcus using the boomerang bounce-back email scheme—my prize invention—on his 2002 experimental expressionistic novel The Father Costume.
		Some provocative and prosaic things were uncovered as the Mad Rooster attempted to get at the story behind the story...
		Is the real world Ben Marcus a disguised persona, or is the intimation of disguises simply a clever ruse to throw us off your track?
	www.madhattersreview.com /issue4/interview_marcus.shtml (1030 words)

	Excerpt: Why Experimental Fiction Threatens to Destroy Publishing, Jonathan Franzen, and Life as We Know It ...
		Ben Marcus defends experimental fiction against critics, Jonathan Franzen in particular, who disparage it.
		If not the best novelist of his generation, then certainly the most anxious—eager for fame, but hostile to the people who confer it—Jonathan Franzen has excelled most conspicuously at worrying about literature's potential for mass entertainment.
		Citing Ulysses as the ultimate scare text, he claims, in an online conversation with New Yorker editor Ben Greenman, that its frequent placement on top-ten lists of the best books of the twentieth century "sends this message to the common reader: Literature is horribly hard to read.
	www.harpers.org /WhyExperimentalFiction.html (1369 words)

	The Age of Wire And String by Ben Marcus, Reviewed by Brad Katz
		Even the cover is confused - the front says it's "stories" while the back describes it as both "An extraordinary first novel" and a "collection - part fiction, part handbook." This unclassifiability is the source of much of the book's pleasure; but it contains a strangeness that extends beyond mere genre categorization.
		Simultaneously somberly earnest and patently absurd, the 185 minute film is an anomaly: things unfold slowly; strange elements are introduced layer after layer; and the VUE itself is never explained.
		Like Greenaway's layering of biographies, Marcus presents a world which is close to our own but yet is also uncannily different.
	www.mashmagazine.com /99sep/septbook.html (433 words)

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