BENJAMIN PERCY  
 

 

Ben's profile of John Irving will appear in the April 23rd issue of TIME magazine.

Ben -- and his sister Jennifer Percy -- have both been named 2012 NEA fellows.

Ben is adapting his novel The Wilding into a screenplay for director Guillermo Arriaga (Babel, 21 Grams)

A profile of Ben recently appeared in The Oregonian.

The Wilding wins the 2011 Society of Midlands Authors Award for Fiction

The Gotham Group buys film rights to Red Moon. Click here to read the article in Variety.

Ben is excited to report that he has sold his next novel, Red Moon, to Grand Central / Hachette, where he will be working with editor Helen Atsma.

The Wilding received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. "A contemporary Deliverance."

Ben scaled and hammocked the night in a 250-ft old growth Douglas fir. His article "Taking Tree-Hugging to New Heights" was featured in the October 9, 2010 edition of The Wall Street Journal. Click here to read.

Click here to read Ben's article "Home Improvement: Revision as Renovation" from Poets & Writers magazine.

USA Today has listed the illustrated adaptation of Refresh, Refresh as one of the top ten comics/graphic novels of the year.

Dodge dropped off a one-ton Ram at Ben's house. He writes about the experience in the Esquire. Click here to read the article.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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"Siblings at Workshop Both Named NEA Fellows" by Mike Kilen, Des Moines Register, December 12, 2011

Benjamin and Jennifer Percy interviewed on the National Endowment for the Arts blog.

"Writing is in Benjamin Percy's blood, giving life to Central Oregon" The Oregonian, Sunday, August 14, 2011.

Interviewed on "Talk of Iowa" Iowa Public Radio, 11/30/10

Interview with Willamette Week, October 2010

Shelf Awareness Interview. October 1, 2010

Interview with Shawn Mitchell for Fiction Writers Review. September, 28, 2010.

Interviewed by Claire Kirch for Publishers Weekly profile. "The Wild West of Benjamin Percy." August 9, 2010 edition.

Interviewed by Carolyn Kellogg, LA Times/Jacket Copy, June 4, 2010

"The Iraq War Moves from Story to Comic to Film" Newsarama interview with Ben, James Ponsoldt and Danica Novgorodoff on the Refresh, Refresh graphic novel.

Interviewed by Kate McIntyre and Emily Wunderlich in the Missouri Review, Summer 2009.

June 2, 2009. Interviewed by Jessica Naudziunas at NPR-affiliate station WNIN, Indiana. To listen to the podcast click here.

July 15, 2008. Interviewed by Benjamin Pheiffer for "Ask the Writer" at Write Well.

April 24, 2008. Interviewed by Chris Williams for Popmatters.com.

March 24, 2008. Interviewed Jenny Shank at New West magazine. To read the interview, click here.

February 21, 2008. Alternet.org.  Interviewed by Courtney Martin.

January 31, 2007. Luna Park Review. Interviewed by Travis Kurowski.

November 14th, 2007. "The Literally Literal" WSUM, 91.7 FM, Madison. Interviewed by Andrew Hirshman. To listen to the podcast click here.

"The Sadness They Carried On Their Backs: A Profile Of Benjamin Percy" by Kris Babe. Poets & Writers. Fall/Winter 2007. To read the article (Adobe PDF) click here.

October 2007. Bookslut.com. Interviewed by Weston Cutter. To read the interview, click here.

September 12, 2007. The Source Weekly. Interviewed by Ellen Santasier. To read the interview, click here.

January 25, 2007. Interviewed by Jane Hamden for "Lake Effect" on WUWM, Milwaukee Public Radio. To download the podcast click here.

November 30, 2006. Interviewed by Craig Reinbold for the Shepherd Express. To read the interview click here.

October 25, 2006. Interviewed by Laura van den Berg for the Ploughshares blog.  To read the interview, click here.

September 19, 2006. Interviewed by David Medaris for Isthmus, the weekly arts newspaper of Madison, Wisconsin. To read the interview, click here.

June 20, 2006. Interviewed by Jane Hamden, "At Ten Show" - WUWM, Wisconsin Public Radio, FM 89.7. Click here to listen to a podcast of the Interview.

April 2, 2006. Interviewed by David Jasper of the Bend, Oregon Bulletin for a feature story in the Community Life Section on "Writing Stories the Color of Oregon" To read this article: Click Here

September 12, 2005. Live E-Panel: Long Time Writers, First Time Authors. Interviewed by Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writer's Network.