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A Year in Reading: Ben Purkert

Dec 14, 2023 | themillions.com | Ben Purkert

A Year in Reading: Ben Purkert I’m a poet who wrote a novel. I also teach an MFA class titled The Poet’s Novel. And so my bookshelf contains no shortage of—wait for it—novels written by poets. Ruth Madievsky’s All-Night Pharmacy is a blissful blur of drug-induced mania, a tale of romantic relationships gone bad and family relationships gone worse.
A Year in Reading: Ben Purkert

Dec 14, 2023 | everand.com | Ben Purkert

I’m a poet who wrote a novel. I also teach an MFA class titled The Poet’s Novel. And so my bookshelf contains no shortage of——novels written by poets.
THE MEN CANT BE SAVED by Ben Purkert Read by Jonathan Todd Ross

Oct 16, 2023 | audiofilemagazine.com | Ben Purkert

Jonathan Todd Ross's performance captures the growing unreliability of this novel's narrator, while maintaining the story's humor and tragedy. This is no small feat because the audiobook requires this deft, complicated tone throughout its entire running time. Seth is an up-and-coming copywriter until he's let go. He finds work in a coffee shop, discovering the numbing effects of drugs while attempting to sort out what's happened to him, and where the pathway forward might be.
Elegy for My Friend

Sep 19, 2023 | poetryfoundation.org | Ben Purkert

A week apart, our birthdays formed a bridge. They always fell at the best time: snow over flowers like thoughts scattered suddenly over the phone. You want to know his name? He was the beautiful friend, the loudmouth, the one whose voice shook the walls until the house began laughing. He could’ve picked anyone to love, and the world would’ve agreed. In the end, flowers thinned silence into their stems. And the night sky? The rising moon? Like a blank slip of paper, and yet signed.
The Men Can’t Be Saved

Aug 31, 2023 | citylights.com | Ben Purkert

Hardcover Price: $26.00 The Men Can't Be Saved quantity * A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF SUMMER 2023 * NYLON * THE MILLIONS * LITHUB * DEBUTIFUL * AND MORE! * “[Purkert is] a sharply funny observer of male foibles, 20-something angst, and the modern workplace.” —WASHINGTON POST “A 21st-Century Catcher in the Rye that examines the ‘genius’ worship and toxic masculinity still dominating the advertising world today. [A] muscular novel . . . startlingly funny thanks to an unforgettable narrator [with...
Go More on Each Gallon

Aug 7, 2023 | guernicamag.com | Ben Purkert

There’s a special kind of torture in writing novels. It is, of course, The Beginning. Twitter threads and the conferences and podcasts insist, at decibels that seem to increase as quickly as the number of titles on shelves, that if you cannot capture a reader in the first 250/150/50 words, you are finished as a writer and possibly as a human being. Ben Purkert did it in 41 words.
Go More on Each Gallon

Aug 7, 2023 | scribd.com | Ben Purkert

Photo by Mathew Schwartz on UnsplashThere’s a special kind of torture in writing novels. It is, of course, The Beginning. Twitter threads and the conferences and podcasts insist, at decibels that seem to increase as quickly as the number of titles on shelves, that if you cannot capture a reader in the first 250/150/50 words, you are finished as a writer and possibly as a human being. Ben Purkert did it in 41 words.
Men Can't Be Saved A Novel

Aug 1, 2023 | abramsbooks.com | Ben Purkert

Description Details * A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF SUMMER 2023 * NYLON * THE MILLIONS * LITHUB * DEBUTIFUL * AND MORE! * “[Purkert is] a sharply funny observer of male foibles, 20-something angst, and the modern workplace.” —WASHINGTON POST “I laughed more times than I can count . . .
The Men Can't Be Saved

Aug 1, 2023 | bookshop.org | Ben Purkert

FORMAT Hardcover$26.00$24.18(English) Buy new or used from an indie through our partner Biblio: Price Condition Seller Description * A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF SUMMER 2023 * NYLON * THE MILLIONS * LITHUB * DEBUTIFUL * AND MORE! * "[Purkert is] a sharply funny observer of male foibles, 20-something angst, and the modern workplace." --WASHINGTON POST "A 21st-Century Catcher in the Rye that examines the 'genius' worship and toxic masculinity still dominating the advertising world today. [A]...
Books on Advertising

Jul 28, 2023 | msn.com | Ben Purkert

By David Ogilvy (1983) 1. A classic never dies. And so the father of advertising, as David Ogilvy is known, will forever occupy a place on bookshelves, just as his taglines linger in the American psyche. While “Confessions of an Advertising Man” (1963) is his most famous title, “Ogilvy on Advertising” proves the most helpful guide for any newbie copywriter or graphic designer trying to break into the industry.