Jonathan Lethem Reviews The Flame Alphabet on Amazon
12.30.2011 Featured Guest Review: Jonathan Lethem on The Flame Alphabet Ben Marcus is one of the rare inventors in our literary language. We already knew this, from the outrageous stories, and from...
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1.2.2012 The Flame Alphabet Teenagers can be described as toxic, no doubt about it. But in Marcus’ speculative tale, teens are literally poisoning their parents each time they speak. This ingenious and...
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The Flame Alphabet
Published by Knopf on January 17, 2012. Pre-order here: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBookstore, IndieBound, McNally Jackson, Powell’s Early comments: “Language kills in Marcus’s audacious new work of...
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1.9.2012 Amazon Best Books of the Month, January 2012: From the dark, curious imagination of Ben Marcus comes another brain melter of a novel. The Flame Alphabet has a pandemic premise–children are...
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The Flame Alphabet Book Tour
Ben Marcus § April 18 Ithaca College, 7:30 p.m. Clark Lounge, Campus Center Ithaca, NY 14850 Map (Campus Center) § May 16 Lannan Foundation, at Lensic Performing Arts Center, 7:00 p.m. Interviewing...
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1.16.2012 The Flame Alphabet is a novel at every sentence. It’s also a mystery, a compulsive page-turner and is told in a relatively straightforward, linear way — very few postmodern sleights of hand....
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1.17.2012 In an election year, nasty rhetoric is par for the course. But what if all that toxic language was, well, actually toxic? That’s the premise of The Flame Alphabet, the new novel by Ben...
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1.30.2012 “The Flame Alphabet is a well-oiled heartbreak machine, with a laser focus on what Marcus calls “the power of family to both love and destroy you.”” Full review here.
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2.25.2012 “Wildly inventive in his imagery, Marcus sends drifts of salt to cover the land as the disease takes hold, frozen birds plummet from the skies and hellish packs of children roam the streets...
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