Notes from the Fog by Ben Marcus (paperback)

In great condition paperback (minor scratches on cover) book Notes from the Fog by Ben Marcus. 288 pages. ISBN 978-1-101-97168-0. Publication date: July 9, 2019. Ben Marcus returns with a collection of timely dystopian visions of alienation in a modern world. Here a hapless, corporate drone finds love after being disfigured from testing his employer’s newest nutrition supplement; a father starts to suspect that his son’s precocity has turned sinister; and two architects in a failing marriage must consider the ethics of artificially inciting emotion as they construct a memorial to a terrorist attack. It’s these characters and others that over the course of thirteen short stories showcase Marcus’s compassion, imagination, and mordant humor. Never has existential catastrophe been so much fun. Ben Marcus is the author of The Flame Alphabet, Leaving the Sea, Notable American Women, and The Age of Wire and String. His new book, Notes from the Fog, was published in August, 2018, by Alfred A. Knopf. His short stories have appeared in Harper's, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, McSweeney's, and Tin House. He lives with his family in New York City, where he is on the faculty at Columbia University.