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Ben Marcus: The Flame Alphabet (review)8 comments

christinasr wrote 3 months ago: I’ve had a strange time with this book. At first, I was disappointed. I had been looking so mu … more →

Tags: Reviews, Logix Banking, Review, Books 2, Ben Marcus, Literature

Favorite Lines: The Flame Alphabet

Matthew James wrote 3 months ago: The Flame Alphabet, by Ben Marcus, is a story about an epidemic caused by language. It’s a gri … more →

Tags: writing, Novel, Reading, Books, book, Fiction, favorite lines, Ben Marcus

THE FLAME ALPHABET by Ben Marcus

Heidi McElrath wrote 3 months ago: So The Flame Alphabet has, quite possibly, one of the coolest covers of any book I read last year. T … more →

Tags: literary fiction, Contemporary, Book Review, Reading, Books, Ben Marcus, Literature

What I'm Reading: January 13

Ellen Duffer wrote 4 months ago: So, I haven’t finished a book since I returned to Boston, hence last week’s missing post … more →

Tags: Blog, What I'm Reading, Books 2, No Animals We Could Name, Ted Sanders, the bell jar, Sylvia Plath, Safe as Houses, A Romantic Education

Favorite Book Cover Designs of 2012

Bookblurb wrote 4 months ago: We asked people in and around the world of graphic design to name one of their favorite book covers … more →

Tags: Books, The New York Times, “In Dreams Begin Responsibilities”, the map and the territory, Hope: A Tragedy, Cover Designs, AngelMaker, the yellow world, How music works

The Horror: Lessons from The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus

elizabethharball wrote 5 months ago: It’s only been two days since the deeply disturbing incident in Newtown, Connecticut, and I … more →

Tags: Ben Marcus, Literature, Creativity, Current Events

The Next Big Thing - Ali Miller

Ever Dundas wrote 5 months ago: I’m very pleased to have my first guest writer on Blood On Forgotten Walls. The Next Big Thing … more →

Tags: Writing #2, Fiction, Art, Reading, Literature, Novel, fiction (2), Experimental Writing, The Next Big Thing

The Flame Alphabet -- Review

rvt9 wrote 8 months ago:  By Jess Cotton Language, its corruption and debasement, has long been the province of the literary … more →

Tags: Literature, Review, Ben Marcus, donald barthelme, Harry Mathews, Thomas Bernhard, Tom McCarthy, Derrida

Writing About Writing: Experimenting with Language8 comments

thebaffledkingcomposing wrote 8 months ago: I’m currently reading Ben Marcus’ The Flame Alphabet. It’s a story told in a world … more →

Tags: Writing about writing, Fiction, writing, Reading, Experimental Writing, Post-modern Fiction, James Joyce, Ulysses, Finnegans Wake

Review: The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus

jaclyn michelle wrote 9 months ago: image via Strand title: The Flame Alphabet [support an independent bookstore and purchase at Strand] … more →

Tags: Book Reviews, Literary Fiction, 7, Literary Fiction, Book, Ben Marcus, Dr. Evil

Mid-summer reads: a list

Amy Steele wrote 9 months ago: It’s August. my least-favorite month as my birthday falls sometime this month and it’s a … more →

Tags: Books, A Cup Full of Midnight, Ben Marcus, bloomsbury, Broken Harbor, Don Lee, Emily Perkins, Hyperion, Jaden Terrell

Flame On, Alphabet! Kill! Kill!

* wrote 9 months ago: Reviewers and interviewers are billing Ben Marcus’ new novel The Flame Alphabet (Knopf) as a departu … more →

Tags: Three-Sentence Reviews, Fiction, Postmodernism, Ben Marcus, Three-Sentence Review, Beckett, experimental fiction

ambern's #CBR4 Review #5 The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus

anpeter wrote 10 months ago: I finished this book a while ago and I’m still not sure what to say about it.  I saw it on a 2012 mu … more →

Tags: 2 stars - an ok book, Fiction, ambern, Ben Marcus

wordsofmercury wrote 11 months ago: Reblogged from : (Knopf, 2012) When I finished writing The Flame Alphabet, Tom McCarthy’s novel C ha … more →

Tags: Miscellany, Art, Books, Ben Marcus, Book covers

Best of 2012 - Armchair BEA day 223 comments

christinasr wrote 11 months ago: So … if you’ve been following this blog for a while, you know I went nuts back in Januar … more →

Tags: Books, Thoughts on Reading and Books, Books 2, Ben Marcus, John Irving, Mark Helprin, Armchair BEA, Bea, In One Person

Do I See a Light?

The Adventures of Sarra wrote 1 year ago: Despite the fact that I am a somewhat normal human being, I’m not really abhorring finals week … more →

Tags: rants, Food, fantasía, Farsi, Milton, Paradise Lost, John Milton, anxiety, School

Ben Marcus Talks About His Novel The Flame Alphabet

D.A. Fletcher wrote 1 year ago: Ben Marcus Talks About His Novel The Flame Alphabet. … more →

Tags: Industry News, Ben Marcus, Novel

I Bought Another Book

The Adventures of Sarra wrote 1 year ago: Do you ever walk into a bookstore or library and become overwhelmed with excitement from being surro … more →

Tags: rants, Literature, english major problems, Books, Fiction, bookstore, Library, Ben Marcus, Plot

Defying Expectations and The Flame Alphabet: A Fiesty Interview with Fiction Writer Ben Marcus

nickcourtright wrote 1 year ago: Ben Marcus is something of a new god in the world of fiction, and especially so to those who conside … more →

Tags: interviews, austinist, Fiction, Ben Marcus, The Age of Wire and String, notable american women, language, Literature


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