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Embracing the World, from High to Low: An Interview with Benjamin Hale

by Anabel Graff | May 24, 2016

Embracing the World, from High to Low: An Interview with Benjamin Hale

In his first story collection, Benjamin Hale introduces us to characters who inhabit the margins of society:  an expat outlaw revolutionary trying to find her way home, a dominatrix confronting a new possible role as mother, a performance artists eating himself towards death. What at first may read as absurd becomes meaningful and then moving through Hale’s skillful and playful storytelling. We reached out to Hale to talk about his writing process and his new collection, which was published … [Read more...] about Embracing the World, from High to Low: An Interview with Benjamin Hale

Filed Under: NOTEBOOK Tagged With: Alex Dezen, Barbara J. King, Beethoven, Benjamin Hale, Borges, Bulgakov, Caliban, Carl Sagan, Catton, Chimpanzees, Chris Burden, Damien Hirst, Dash Snow, Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Duchamp, Frankenstein, Jesus, Kafka, Karen Finley, Marquez, McCarthy, Nicholson Baker, O'Connor, short fiction, short story, Stories, The Fat Artist, Tolkien, Tolstoy, Tracey Emin, William Grimes, Wim Delvoye, Yves Klein

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Issue 81

Guest-edited by Fernando A. Flores, featuring new stories by Yvette DeChavez, Julián Delgado Lopera, Carribean Fragoza, Alejandro Heredia, Carmen Maria Machado, Ruben Reyes Jr., and Gerardo Sámano Córdova.

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Read the winners of the 2024 Insider Prize

Read the winners of the 2024 Insider Prize

By ASF Editors

“Memories are a nuisance,” Peter wrote to one of our writers after reading his short story, “but nonetheless they seem to make us who we are, as this story confirms.” This year’s submissions told many stories burdened with memory, but just as many stared bravely into the face of hope, satirized the state of politics, speculated on the future of the world, or else built entirely new worlds to inhabit. In short, the stories written on the inside reflected the stories we wrote this year on the outside. Stories of human toil and dreams and everything in between.
 

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