Notes Fog by Marcus Ben (64 results)

Condition: Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.65.

Condition: Good. First Edition. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. *PROOF* THE BOOK IS IN GOOD CONDITION. THE COVER IS RUBBED AND CREASED. THE CORNERS ARE BUMPED. THERE ARE SOME CREASES TO PAGE CORNERS INSIDE. THE BINDING IS TIGHT. THE PAGES ARE GENERALLY CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. THIS IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF AN INTERESTING BOOK.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A fine new signed first edition. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 286 pages. Wayetu Moore "Ghessa" / Ben Marcus "Notes from the Fog" / Cristina Rivera Garza "Simple Pleasure, Pure Pleasure" / Katharine Kilalea "OK, Mr. Field: Part 3 (Winter)" / Shruti Swamy "A House Is a Body" / Benjamin Nugent "Safe Spaces" / Ursula K Le Guin "Firelight" / Hilton Als "The Art of the Eassy No.3" / Edie Fake "Cities of the Future, Their Color" / Jan Morris "Diaries" / Julian Brimmers "Kathy Acker's Library".

Hardcover, in dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket, in mylar cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Special Edition. Advance Reader's Copies of Uncorrected Proofs in paperback, story collections sold together. Bright, clean & tight ARC copies, unread, in Fine condition. LEAVING THE SEA, from 2014: "The second collection from Marcus is a peculiar, funny, original analysis of the human psyche and modern language. Split into six parts, the volume fluctuates between traditional narrative (the opener, 'What Have You Done?,' acts as a stranger in a strange land tale: a man reluctantly visits his family, only to learn his present self cannot erase memories of his younger, wilder past) and more experimental fare (the title story, for example, unspools in one breathless, exhilarating sentence). Communication is important to the author, and throughout, characters employ unusual linguistic skills, renaming common tasks (sex becomes lust applications) and speaking about common phrases as if they are alien ('These changes in temperatures were called moods and they had interesting foreign names, but I no longer recall them,' the narrator in 'First Love' muses). The protagonists of most of the stories are men, and often their conflicts are flared by worried, overactive imaginations. 'The Moors' plots the increasingly elaborate digressions of a man as he trails a coworker to an office coffee machine, spiraling a mundane experience into a psychological death march, while 'Watching Mysteries with My Mother' and 'The Loyalty Protocol' parse the responsibilities of caring for aging parents. A very strong collection."--Publishers Weekly. NOTES FROM THE FOG, from 2018: "With these thirteen riveting stories--alternately strange, moving, and brutally funny--Ben Marcus gives us eerie, mordant, unsettling visions of the modern world. Never has existential catastrophe been so much fun. In 'The Grow-Light Blues,' a hapless, corporate drone finds love after being disfigured testing his employer's newest nutrition supplement--the enhanced glow of his computer monitor. A father finds himself outcast from his family when he starts to suspect that his son's precocity has turned sinister in the chilling 'Cold Little Bird.' In 'Blueprints for St. Louis,' two architects in a flailing marriage consider the ethics of artificially inciting emotion in mourners at their latest assignment--a memorial to a terrorist attack. In the uncanny yet all-too-real universe of Ben Marcus's fiction, characters encounter both troubling new illnesses and equally troubling new cures. Marcus writes beautifully, hysterically, and obsessively, about sex and death, lust and shame, the indignities of the body, and the full parade of human folly. Blistering, beautiful work from a modern master." [publisher copy] "The Literary Answer to 'Black Mirror.' Marcus is an engrossing, poetically surreal writer. He's often woundingly funny."--The New York Times Book Review. "To read Ben Marcus is to discover a new language, trapped inside of the old one. Sentences that cut through every layer straight to the heart of the matter. Writing that startles you into wakefulness. You know all these words but have never seen them used like this before. To read Ben Marcus is to be challenged and entertained and inspired all at once."--Charles Yu. Pristine ARC paperbacks w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, square & tight bindings w/no creases on spines & no jackets as issued. Generic blue & grey ARC wrappers protect the actual books' cool cover images.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition. The Book Is Bound In Gray Paper Over Boards With Black Lettering On The Spine. As New Condition.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. First printing. Very Fine in a very fine dust jacket. A tight, clean copy, new and unread. Comes with archival-quality dust jacket protector. NOT price clipped. Shipped in well padded box. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page--the author's name only, with no other marks or writing. Purchased new and opened only for author signature. You cannot find a better copy. Signed by Author(s).