• Recall this Book 33: A Conversation with Ben Fountain

    Author(s):
    Ben Fountain, John Plotz
    Date:
    2020
    Subject(s):
    Literature
    Item Type:
    Podcast
    Tag(s):
    Books
    Permanent URL:
    https://doi.org/10.17613/cged-2474
    Abstract:
    Ben Fountain is far more than just the author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, which won RTB hearts and minds (and the National Book Award) long before it became a weird Ang Lee movie. What is consoling and engaging the author of the best novel about America's dismal experience in Iraq? American novels, especially those about Americans abroad (Joan Didion. say) have always done something special for him. Marilynne Robinson's and James Baldwin's work make us confront the reality that's happening around us all the time, "a freaking massacre." He carried the (fictional but genuine) facts of Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk in his head for forty years.
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    Pub. URL:
    https://newbooksnetwork.com/33-rtb-books-in-dark-times-9-ben-fountain-jp
    Publisher:
    Brandeis University
    Pub. Date:
    05/28/2020
    Episode:
    33
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    12 months ago
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
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