Author
Benjamin Percy
Benjamin Percy’s first novel, The Wilding, will be published in late 2009 by Graywolf Press. His story “Dial Tone” appeared in issue 30.2 (Spring 2007) of The Missouri Review. A frequent contributor at Esquire, he has published two short-story collections: Refresh, Refresh (2007) and The Language of Elk (2006). Percy is a recipient of the Whiting Award, the Plimpton Prize and a Pushcart Prize. He teaches at Iowa State University in Ames, where he is an assistant professor of English. [2009]
CONTRIBUTIONS
Interviews
Jun 01 2009
A Conversation with Benjamin Percy
Believability is in minutiae, those small details that rise up. If you’re referencing a sunset-Chekov points this out-it’s often a waste of language to talk about things generally: the way the sunlight filters through the sky and over the forest. Instead focus on a bunch of broken glass on the ground. . .
Fiction
Jun 01 2007
Dial Tone
A jogger spotted the body hanging from the cell tower. At first he thought it was a mannequin. That’s what he told Z-21, the local NBC affiliate. The way the wind blew it, the way it flopped limply, made it appear insubstantial, maybe stuffed with straw.