In reviews of 'Notes from the Fog,' critics have noted the dark, dystopian mood throughout the stories. In “The Grow-Light Blues,” a hapless, corporate drone is disfigured testing his employer’s new product. In other stories, a father simply vanishes, a woman takes on the role of her dead sister and a researcher loses her identity in a snowstorm. Marcus’s new book, Notes from the Fog, is a collection of 13 short stories in which, among other things, a young Jewish boy rejects his parents’ love and turns into an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist. In 2013, he was a Guggenheim Fellow as well as a Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. Among his honors are a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in fiction, a literature award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and three Pushcart Prizes.
His writing has appeared in Harper's, the New Yorker, Granta, The New York Times and Salon, and he is the editor of New American Stories and The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories. Marcus, the author of several books of fiction, including The Flame Alphabet, Notable American Women and Leaving the Sea, hardly needs to promote himself. That has nothing to do with the transaction that I hope might happen in the classroom. “That would take advantage of the teacher’s authority. Ben Marcus, a professor in the writing program at the School of the Arts since 2000, has taught the work of many writers over the years, but never his own.
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