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Ben Tanzer

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Emmy-award winner Ben Tanzer's acclaimed work includes the short story collection UPSTATE, the science fiction novel Orphans and the essay collections Lost in Space and Be Cool. His recent novel The Missing was released in March 2024 by 7.13 Books and was a Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year finalist in the category of Traditional Fiction and his new book After Hours: Scorsese, Grief and the Grammar of Cinema, which Kirkus Reviews calls "A heartfelt if overstuffed tribute to the author’s father and the ameliorative power of art," was released by Ig Publishing in May 2025. Ben is also the host of the long running podcast This Podcast Will Change Your Life and lives in Chicago with his family. ...more

Average rating: 4.29 · 953 ratings · 355 reviews · 39 distinct works
You Can Make Him Like You

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Most Likely You Go Your Way...

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Orphans (Switchgrass Books)

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Lucky Man

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Upstate

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The Missing

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Repetition Patterns

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My Father's House: A Novella

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We are new website. And more to come.

It's true. We are new Ben Tanzer website. We are also going to begin moving some of our blogging to the new site, and the rest of it to another site to come. We think it's all going to be awesome, though all we know for certain, is that it just might change your life, if only for a moment at that. Read more of this blog post »
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After Hours by Ben Tanzer
"After Hours is a unique and compelling read that draws out intense feelings of nostalgia and appreciation for the films we get lost in. Tanzer fuses many facets of his life through film: his journey of becoming a writer; a hedonistic youth; a sensibl" Read more of this review »
After Hours by Ben Tanzer
After Hours by Ben Tanzer
"This book is such a treasure. I wasn't super familiar with the movie After Hours before reading this, but that wasn't necessary at all. Tanzer stitches together his reflections on the movie, and his own life, as well as the lives of those around him " Read more of this review »
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Understories by Tim Horvath
Understories
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Stories so tightly constructed and beautiful they're like reading an Escher wood print.

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Flanagan's Run by Tom McNab
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The greatest novel about running ever written or just the best novel I found about running as a middle-school runner? Discuss. Though do note I read it no less than twenty times as an adolescent and it was never less than great.
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Dear Damage by Ashley Farmer
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A love letter and a dirge, a rumination on grief, family, a life in the arts, and never less than beautiful.
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Jacket Weather by Mike DeCapite
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Auto fiction, memoir, flash, and sketches, who knows, who cares, a love story, in love with words, New York City and love itself.
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Questionstruck by William Walsh
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Questionstruck is not just a loving, crazy, fragmented tribute to the work of the great Calvin Trillin, but a celebration of all things political, familial, edible, and textual, both dense and wonderful, and bordering on poetry.
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Pathologies by William Walsh
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The William Walsh does humor, pop culture and sex as well as anyone in this collection, but one thing I'm always struck by regardless of what I'm reading of his, is Walsh's almost restless curiosity, which always pops off the page, all fertile, authe ...more
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“The bigger you feel things, the more curious you are; and the more problems you want to solve and not actually run from, the better everything is, even the things you already love.”
Ben Tanzer, 99 Problems

“A therapist once said to me that I was a good storyteller, but he didn’t mean it as a compliment.”
Ben Tanzer, Lost in Space: A Father's Journey There and Back Again

“It's never too early to think about your legacy," she would say. "Don't you want to leave some kind of mark that you were here?”
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Shanereads Thanks for accepting my invite!


message 5: by Kate

Kate Hey Ben, just wanted to stop by and wish you and yours a very Happy Holiday season! I'm just excited to have a long weekend to read and work on some of my end of year journaling. It's the little things :)


Vickie Thank you so much for adding me as your friend. Your books look very interesting and I completely agree...Frodo rocks!


message 3: by Tara

Tara Thanks for the add, Ben, and congrats on your own work.


message 2: by Ben

Ben Caleb wrote: "I just got my copy of Most Likely You'll Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine in the mail. I'll be burning through a few of my books to get to this one. Excited = me."

Ditto, all of it, mail, burn, read, excited, me.


message 1: by Caleb

Caleb Ross I just got my copy of Most Likely You'll Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine in the mail. I'll be burning through a few of my books to get to this one. Excited = me.


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