Notes from the Fog: Stories. This item is unavailable.Notes from the Fog: Stories

Ben Marcus returns with a collection of timely dystopian visions of alienation in a modern world. Here a hapless, corporate drone finds love after being disfigured from testing his employer’s newest nutrition supplement; a father starts to suspect that his son’s precocity has turned sinister; and two architects in a failing marriage must consider the ethics of artificially inciting emotion as they construct a memorial to a terrorist attack. It’s these characters and others that over the course of thirteen short stories showcase Marcus’s compassion, imagination, and mordant humor. Never has existential catastrophe been so much fun.

BEN MARCUS is the author of four books of fiction: The Flame Alphabet, Leaving the Sea, Notable American Women, and The Age of Wire and String. He has edited two short story anthologies:  The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, and New American Stories. His writing has appeared in Harper's, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, McSweeney's, Granta, and The New York Times. He is the recipient of a Whiting Award, the Berlin Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in fiction, a Guggenheim fellowship, and three Pushcart Prizes. He lives in New York City.