Ramon

Ramon asked Ben Marcus:

This is in connection with your love of the short story (& the upcoming anthology you edited). Can you recommend 5-10 best short story collections published 2000 onwards? Thank you very much, Sir!

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THE FUN PARTS — Sam Lipsyte
TWILIGHT OF THE SUPERHEROES — Deborah Eisenberg
EVERYTHING RAVAGED, EVERYTHING BURNED — Wells Tower
GOLD BOY, EMERALD GIRL — Yiyun Li
ONE HUNDRED APOCALYPSES — Lucy Corin
AMERICAN INNOVATIONS — Rivka Galchen
MINOR ROBBERIES — Deb Olin Unferth

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As a writer who writes in a great tradition of the more esoteric and experimental vein of fiction, how do you explain your work to people who probably will not understand it (when they read it), or to those that you can be certain will not understand it?

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Hello Ben, Not many writers can knock me off my feet with a short sentence; you're one of the few that can. Do you have an opinion on whether self-publishing is a viable route for the "experimental" writer? Or on smart strategies for a writer situated a long, long way from academia (MFA's, writing courses etc)? At times it can seem like a cloistered (and well-defended) world...

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