67 ratings | 3 reviews | avg rating:5.00

Ben Purkert’s Followers (63)

Ben’s Bookshelves

to-read (9)
currently-reading (5)
read (65)
did-not-finish (0)

Ben’s Friends (11)

Ken

2,560 books | 531 friends

Jenna

606 books | 1,184 friends

Ava Cairns

10,041 books | 1,458 friends

Kathleen

193 books | 28 friends

Ruth

1,223 books | 315 friends

Mary-Alice Daniel

4 books | 491 friends

Charlotte

131 books | 30 friends

Sandra Levine

28 books | 2 friends

More friends…

Ben Purkert

Goodreads Author

Born

Morristown, NJ, The United States

Website

http://www.benpurkert.com

Twitter

BenPurkert

Genre

Poetry, Fiction

Member Since

September 2021

edit data

Ben Purkert is a poet and novelist. His debut novel, The Men Can't Be Saved, is forthcoming in 2023 from Abrams/Overlook, and his poetry collection, For the Love of Endings, was published in 2018 by Four Way Books and received praise from The New York Times and Publishers Weekly. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, Slate, Wall Street Journal, Poetry, Kenyon Review, Tin House, and elsewhere. He is the founding editor of Back Draft, a Guernica interview series focused on revision and the creative process. He currently teaches at Rutgers. ...more

Learn more
Ask the Author

To ask Ben Purkert questions, please sign up.

Popular Answered Questions

Hi Ben, I started reading a sample of The Men Can't Be Saved and want to get it as an ebook in Australia. It's not available on Kindle in Australia. Can you please let me know where I can get it as ebook? Thanks.

Ben Purkert Hi Sean! Unfortunately it's not being sold in Australia at the moment. I do know that some American bookstores will ship internationally. (My pal in N…moreHi Sean! Unfortunately it's not being sold in Australia at the moment. I do know that some American bookstores will ship internationally. (My pal in New Zealand ordered the book from The Strand in NYC, and a signed copy arrived in her mailbox not too long after.) So I think, for now at least, that's your best bet.

Hope this helps!(less)

flag

1 like · like
1 comment

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Ben Purkert I try to be patient with myself. Typically, if the words aren't coming, I'm not reading enough. (I'm low on fuel, as Anne Lamott says.) I'll take a br…moreI try to be patient with myself. Typically, if the words aren't coming, I'm not reading enough. (I'm low on fuel, as Anne Lamott says.) I'll take a break from writing for a few weeks and just zip through a stack of books. That always unlocks something for me. (less)

flag

1 like · like
Comment

See all 6 answers from Ben Purkert…

Combine Editions
Ben Purkert’s books

Average rating: 3.24 · 949 ratings · 198 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Men Can't Be Saved 3.13 avg rating — 873 ratings — published 2023 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	For the Love of Endings 4.42 avg rating — 73 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bodies Built for Game: The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Sports Writing by Natalie Díaz (Editor), Hanif Abdurraqib (Contributor), Patricia Smith (Contributor) 4.33 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	SRPR, Spoon River Poetry Review 36.2, Summer/Fall 2011 by Spoon River Poetry Review, Kirstin Hotelling Zona (Editor, Contributor), C. S. Giscombe (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars