5/25/2023 0 Comments Notable american women ben marcusIn addition to working as an author, he is also an editor (among others for the literary magazines ✿ence« und »The American Reader«) and published »The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories« (2004) with texts from George Saunders, Jhumpa Lahiri, David Foster Wallace and others. His new book »Leaving the Sea«, a volume of stories, is set for release in 2014. Here he creates an apocalyptic scenario in which the spoken word has a toxic effect. In his second novel »The Flame Alphabet« (2012) Marcus focuses his attention on the subversive power of language. The critics have hailed Marcus as one of the most innovative and most important literary voices of his generation.»Notable American Women« (2002) is both a family history and an elaborate play of language with novel length that also deconstructs the authority of the author. In his debut »The Age of Wire and String« (1995), a Postmodern collage of often surreal short and very short stories, he already subverts and calls into question standard narrative constructs.
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