November 17, 2012
I intend to focus on perhaps the two most fascinating aspects of fiction for me personally: beautiful prose in an era that sometimes seems to disparage it and the use of comic elements in work that is nevertheless serious. There will likely be an emphasis on work that may not have have gained a very wide audience. My sources will be mainly literary magazines and independent book sellers, although I reserve the right to rave about something I run across in the more popular media. I hope to begin in October, 2013.
TB
THOMAS BENZ graduated with a B.A. in English from the University of Notre Dame. He recently won the 2017 Serena McDonald Kennedy Award for a short story collection called “Home and Castle.” The book is to be published by Snake Nation Press in the fall. In the last several years, he has had fifteen stories (…read more)