{"product_id":"notes-from-the-fog-9781101971680","title":"Notes from the Fog","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBen Marcus is the author of four books of fiction--\u003ci\u003eThe Age of Wire and String\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNotable American Women\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Flame Alphabet\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLeaving the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e--and the editor of two short story anthologies: \u003ci\u003eThe Anchor Book of New American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNew American Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. His fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eBomb\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Virginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e. Among his awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Berlin Prize, a Whiting Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in fiction, and three Pushcart Prizes. He lives with his family in New York City, where he is on the faculty at Columbia University.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50414730838290,"sku":"9781101971680","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0d826d8d-7956-4fbd-a10e-5b435b48a341.jpg?v=1729380323","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/notes-from-the-fog-9781101971680","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}