Ben Marcus with Rivka Galchen

In Notes from the Fog, award-winning author Ben Marcus offers thirteen transfixing, ingenious stories: timely dystopian visions of alienation in a modern world–cosmically and comically apt. In the bizarre but instantly recognizable universe of Ben Marcus’s fiction, characters encounter both surreal new illnesses and equally surreal new cures. Marcus writes beautifully, hilariously, and obsessively about sex and death, lust and shame, the indignities of the body, and the full parade of human folly. Showcasing Marcus’ compassion, tenderness, and mordant humor, this is a blistering, beautiful work from a modern master. Marcus reads and discusses his work at Greenlight in conversation with fellow writer, Rivka Galchen.