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Mombaccus Expansion

Mombaccus Expansion

A rollicking mashup in which two misguided publishing entreprenuers incite mob violence by publishing a condensed rewrite of Infinite Jest.

2022

Stories

Pinned

Benjamin Obler

Literary Art at the Junction of Life and Death

A hybrid factual account / report from the editorial trenches, with some lessons for novelists deeply encoded

8 min read6 days ago

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Literary Art at the Junction of Life and Death

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Benjamin Obler

The Sock Thief of Paris

He hangs by his fingertips, the sock thief who has been making headlines and causing gossip in the seventeenth district — called an…

5 min readMar 29, 2024

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The Sock Thief of Paris

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Benjamin Obler

Keys to the Rhetorical Kingdom

(or Whose Story Is This?)

13 min readMar 13, 2024

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Keys to the Rhetorical Kingdom

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Benjamin Obler

The Fascinating Face

The face is a fascinating thing. Over thousands of years, through evolutionary necessity, humans have evolved a complex system for…

6 min readMar 6, 2024

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The Fascinating Face

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Benjamin Obler

Blogs as Art?

Recently, Longreads published a piece exploring the place of the blog in the literary space. Thirty years has passed since the first blog…

6 min readNov 6, 2023

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Blogs as Art?

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Benjamin Obler

Fairy God Rocker

Recollections upon the passing of Chris Cornell. From the archive, 2017

10 min readOct 31, 2023

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Fairy God Rocker

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Benjamin Obler

The Gaslight Chronicles

Another home-brewed piece à la The New Yorker’s Shouts & Murmurs column — from the archive, Jan 2019

5 min readOct 21, 2023

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The Gaslight Chronicles

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Benjamin Obler

Judy & Merv: A Case of Technophilic Colonization of a Heartening Love Story

Something from the vault to get us through 2023

8 min readSep 8, 2023

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Judy & Merv: A Case of Technophilic Colonization of a Heartening Love Story

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Benjamin Obler

Patience and Perspective in Zone 3

Fiction writers, celebrate your success and accept the failures.

6 min readMay 16, 2023

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Patience and Perspective in Zone 3

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Benjamin Obler

A Boy Appears, Excerpt 2

Synopsis/Set-Up: In the year 2040, Daniel is research scientist who has quit his college post, administered a gene-changing injection to…

6 min readMay 8, 2023

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A Boy Appears, Excerpt 2

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Benjamin Obler

Benjamin Obler

Book Author

Instructor at @GothamWriters, NYC. Ed.-in-Chief of AspiringWriterSyndrome.com, where fiction is the focus and inspiration is the goal. #Javascotia @PenguinBooks

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