Ben Greenman
Autor(a) de Superbad
About the Author
Ben Greenman is a contributing writer to the New Yorker and the author of eight books of fiction. His most recent novel is The Slippage, and his latest collection of short stories is What He's Poised to Do. He has collaborated with Questlove on the New York Times bestselling hip-hop memoir Mo'Meta mostrar mais Blues and on Something to Food About, which explores the intersection of creativity and eating. He also cowrote George Clinton's memoir, Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain't That Funkin' Kinda Hard on You? and Brian Wilson's memoir, I Am Brian Wilson. mostrar menos
Image credit: David Shankbone, September 2007
Obras por Ben Greenman
Correspondences 3 exemplares
Out Came the Sun 2 exemplares
Harlem 1964 (in The Lifted Brow 6 - SCOTT) 1 exemplar
I Am Brian Wilson: A Memoir 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney's Humor Category (2004) — Contribuidor — 858 exemplares
McSweeney's Issue 5 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Sometimes Not Believing How Great This All Is (1975) — Contribuidor — 181 exemplares
Significant Objects: 100 Extraordinary Stories about Ordinary Things (2012) — Contribuidor — 56 exemplares
The Encyclopedia of Exes: 26 Stories by Men of Love Gone Wrong (2005) — Contribuidor — 14 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1969-09-28
- Sexo
- male
- Ocupações
- novelist
journalist
Membros
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The opener and title story is not this book's best. "What We Believe But Cannot Praise" towards the end, finally redeems it, but barely. Somehow the rhythm and flavor of this book makes me envy the illiterate a little.
Best short story collection I've read in years.
Pretty good! One of the better Prince books I've read, in terms of combining the author's personal/emotional/historical narrative with interesting/new information. I have to say, it feels like the publishing of this was a little rushed. There are parts that were obviously crafted years ago which hold up really well, and then parts that seemed to be tacked on in order to flesh out the book for quick publication post-death. I'm always looking for works on Prince that could hold up next to Hilton Als' "I Am Your Conscious, I Am Love"...and this isn't quite there. Really like that he actually takes on the task of seriously engaging with stuff like Prince's gender, race, sexuality, name-change, views towards creative women, etc. but I feel like he only scratched the surface on each, before abruptly moving on. Oh well, guess I still need to finish writing my Prince essay then.… (mais)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 26
- Also by
- 15
- Membros
- 520
- Popularidade
- #47,760
- Avaliação
- 3.6
- Críticas
- 39
- ISBN
- 35
- Línguas
- 3
- Marcado como favorito
- 2
I listened to the audio and overall a fun listen.