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Rogers’ debut novel The Flamer was called “one of the wisest, funniest, strangest novels I’ve ever read” by Christopher Coake, and “diabolically funny” by Claire Vaye Watkins. He is also the author of The Daughters, The Heavy Side, and The Mayfly. His work has been published in The Rumpus, PANK, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Portland Review, Arroyo Literary Review, and Wag’s Revue, and has earned the Nevada Arts Council Fellowship. He is also the lead author of Nanotechnology: Understanding Small Systems, the first-ever comprehensive textbook on nanotechnology, and Nanotechnology: The Whole Story, both of which earned the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award from the American Library Association. He studied engineering and journalis ...more

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The Flamer

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The Heavy Side

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The Mayfly: Stories

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Dudes book club book. I loves me a good spy novel and though this one WAS good--just not great--by my own math, I guess I still loved it. Its author is a journalist/novelist, and his story maybe suffered from that: much of it seemed to arise from a p ...more
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This collection is exactly as billed: glimpses of the capital-W West arrayed like pearls along a cleverly deployed timeline. Every one of these stories is beautiful. Nuanced. Some funny, some shocking. Sketches drawn quickly and well, in color, in gr ...more
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“At the end of most days I had nothing to show for having lived except shampooed hair.”
― Ben Rogers, The Flamer: A Novel

“I passed the time by flaring my nostrils whenever the crack in the windshield and the speedometer needle were parallel.”
― Ben Rogers, The Flamer: A Novel

“Maybe he thanked God. In which case, here ends this horrible metaphor. My thanks are owed elsewhere, I think.”
― Ben Rogers, The Flamer: A Novel

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