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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 final, 17th book on my Laxalt/Clark list!
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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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