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Brian Benson

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Nonfiction, Memoir, Travel

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February 2014

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Brian Benson is the author of Going Somewhere (Plume, 2014) and co-author, with Richard Brown, of This Is Not For You (OSU Press, 2021). He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he teaches at the Attic Institute and facilitates free workshops in schools, treatment centers, and affordable housing.

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Average rating: 3.72 · 877 ratings · 155 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	Going Somewhere: A Bicycle Journey Across America 3.67 avg rating — 820 ratings — published 2014 — 10 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
	This Is Not for You: An Activist’s Journey of Resistance and Resilience by Richard Brown, Brian Benson (Goodreads Author) (With) 4.49 avg rating — 57 ratings — 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

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A brilliant and wide-ranging exploration of divorce, grounded in Mlotek's own story (which she writes so, so well). This book is teeming with gorgeous sentences. I dog-eared so many pages. ...more
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An absorbing, expertly paced, all-too-real fever dream of a story, full of pathos and humor and horror and absolutely stellar sentences. Loved it.
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“If I had my way, the trip’s every moment would be a Moment—ripe with meaning, worthy of at least a sidebar or infographic in my personal history book. I looked back to the road, followed the pavement”
― Brian Benson, Going Somewhere: A Bicycle Journey Across America

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