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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

Apr 9

Literary Art at the Junction of Life and Death

Apr 9

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All Has Been Won, All Has Been Lost (And There’s Nothing Left for Us to Save) — Excerpt, “The Last…

Something from a #wip work in progress, a little on the wild side. The work at large, meaning the whole book, is a hybrid of fiction and…

Jul 30

All Has Been Won, All Has Been Lost (And There’s Nothing Left for Us to Save) — Excerpt, “The Last…

Jul 30

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Thanks for this, Joe.

Apr 17

Apr 17

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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…

Mar 29

The Sock Thief of Paris

Mar 29

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Keys to the Rhetorical Kingdom

(or Whose Story Is This?)

Mar 13

Keys to the Rhetorical Kingdom

Mar 13

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The Fascinating Face

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

Mar 6

The Fascinating Face

Mar 6

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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…

Nov 6, 2023

Blogs as Art?

Nov 6, 2023

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Rock n’ Heavy

Fairy God Rocker

Recollections upon the passing of Chris Cornell

Oct 31, 2023

A black cd-player.

Oct 31, 2023

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The Gaslight Chronicles

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

Oct 21, 2023

The Gaslight Chronicles

Oct 21, 2023

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

Something from the vault to get us through 2023

Sep 8, 2023

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

Sep 8, 2023

Benjamin Obler

Benjamin Obler

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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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