![]() ![]() Stated with Marcus’s verbal aplomb and with tongue strategically planted in cheek, he attempted in the essay to reemphasize the primacy of the intellect over the pop cultural simplicity of fiction as a feel good enterprise, and posited that literary fiction might entertain in more complex, and challenging, ways. He is notorious for a 2005 Harper’s essay, a stern rebuke of-among others-the overly lauded contemporary novelist Jonathan Franzen, in reaction to that author’s comments condemning difficult and experimental fiction as the end of literature. Ben Marcus, a celebrated young novelist who is an associate professor of literature at Columbia University, has received numerous awards and recognition for his innovative contributions to contemporary literature, including an NEA Fellowship and multiple Pushcart Prizes. ![]()
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