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Ben Greenman

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Ben Greenman is an editor at The New Yorker whose short fiction, journalism, and essays have appeared there, The New York Times, McSweeneys, The Paris Review, and Zoetrope: All Story. He is the author of several acclaimed books of fiction, including Superbad, Superworse, A Circle is a Balloon and Compass Both, Correspondences, and the novel Please Step Back. HIs new book of stories What He's Poised To Do: Stories was published in June of 2010. ...more

Average rating: 3.81 · 18,813 ratings · 2,612 reviews · 51 distinct worksSimilar authors
Dig If You Will the Picture...

3.57 avg rating — 577 ratings — published 2017 — 15 editions
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Emotional Rescue: Essays on...

2.57 avg rating — 677 ratings — published 2016 — 8 editions
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What He's Poised to Do: Sto...

3.63 avg rating — 304 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions
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The Slippage

2.84 avg rating — 259 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions
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A Circle is a Compass and a...

3.79 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions
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Superbad: Stories and Pieces

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Please Step Back

3.31 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions
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Superworse - The Novel: A R...

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Don Quixotic

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Correspondences

4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2008
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“It seemed he was the perfect lover, at least for the moment. He did not live where you lived. He did not see you often enough, or for long enough, for you to grow bored, or to feel afraid that you were not feeling love---or worse, that you were. The perfection had a cost, which is that he was not in any true sense a real person. He was a coat you bought off the rack, an unsuperlative fashion statement.”
Ben Greenman, What He's Poised to Do: Stories

“I felt lonely, and in full possession of my loneliness. It was the first time I had owned anything of value.”
Ben Greenman, What He's Poised to Do: Stories

“...as Abe Lincoln said, I was sick from my stovepipe hat to the worn out soles of my shoes.”
Ben Greenman, Superbad: Stories and Pieces

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