BENJAMIN PERCY  
 

 

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 about it will appear in The Wall Street Journal this September.

Ben has a short story -- called "James Franco" -- that will appear in the September issue of Esquire.

Ben has an article in the June issue of Outside magazine called "Never Been to Disneyland."

Ben reads from his story -- "Heart of a Bear" -- published in the March/April issue of Orion. Download the podcast here.

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

In February of 2011 filmmaker James Ponsoldt will begin filming "Refresh, Refresh" on-site in Central Oregon

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Articles

Essays

Radio

Book Reviews

 



 

ARTICLES:

"Up in the Air" The Wall Street Journal (Weekend Edition), September TBA 2010

"Am I Repeating Myself? Meaningful Repetition in Fiction and Nonfiction" Poets & Writers magazine, TBA

"Techniques of Violence" (with Aaron Gwyn), Poets & Writers magazine, TBA

"The Savage Reader" Esquire, August 2010

"Revision as Renovation" Poets & Writers magazine, May/June 2010.

"Never Been" Outside Magazine, May 2010.

"Zeitgeist of Doom" Orion Magazine, January/February 2010.

"The Disrespected" Esquire, November 2009.

"Go the Distance: What Rocky Taught Me About Submission" Poets & Writers magazine, November/December 2009.

"Triangulate Dialogue" in Poets & Writers, July/August, 2009.

Contributor to the "50 Funniest Books Ever Written." Micro-essays on Airships by Barry Hannah and Dogwalker by Arthur Bradford. Esquire UK. February, 2009.

"Rabbit Remembered: Obit for John Updike" Esquire.com, January 2009.

"The Lost Geek Conquering Hollywood With Comic Books" Esquire, December, 2008.

"75 Books Every Man Should Read" with Bret Anthony Johnston. Esquire, 75th Anniversary Issue, 2008. (Also sent to 20,000,000 readers on the Borders email list.)

"Real Men Drive Dodges" Esquire, July 2008

"Exit Devil" Men's Journal, February 2008.

"The Virtual Workout" Men's Journal, January, 2008

"The Great Novel I Never Read" Slate, October 30, 2007

"I Heart Bacon" Esquire, December, 2007

"Voice of the Ozarks" Esquire, October 2007

"Daddy's Got a Gun" Esquire.com, September 2007. Click here to read.

Profile of Hayward, Wisconsin as part of "Best Telecommuting Towns" feature. Men's Journal, March 2007

 

RADIO:

"Devilishly Good Books Terrify -- and Delight." For All Things Considered, National Public Radio, October 31, 2008. Click here to listen to the podcast.

"The Merit of a Man." For All Things Considered, National Public Radio, September, 17 2007. Click here to listen to the podcast.

 

ESSAYS:

"All In" Glimmer Train (Bulletin), October 2010

"Invasion" Fugue, 20th anniversary issue themed around the changing West, 2010.

"Me vs. Animals" The Paris Review, Winter Issue, 2009/10.

"Great Moments in Cinema Ruined by Cookies" McSweeney's, Summer 2009

"Bottles in a Midnight Sea" Mississippi Review, Fall 2008

"A Dark Kind of Pleasure" Opium Magazine, Volume 6, Spring 2007

"The Huntsman" The Other Chechov. New American Press, 2007

"Five Westerns I Will Never Stop Reading" Frost Proof Review, Spring 2007

"Wal-Mart and the Apocalypse and Me" Green Mountains Review, Spring 2007

"In the Quiet Depths of Cattle Land" Wisconsin Academy Review, January 2006

 

BOOK REVIEWS:

"The Only Thing Worse Than Boring Porn is Chuck Palahniuk's New Novel About Boring Porn," a review of Chuck Palahniuk's Snuff , June 2008. Esquire.com

"Still King," a review of Stephen King's Duma Key, Esquire.com , February 2008

"The After Story," a review of Larry Watson's Sundown, Yellow Moon . Esquire.com. December 2007.

"Blood on his Hands," a review of Percival Everett's The Water Cure, Esquire.com, October 2007

"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy, The Capital Times, December 22, 2006

"The Traveler" by John Twelve Hawks, The Capital Times, December 23, 2005

"Between Camelots" by David Harris Ebenbach, The Capital Times, November 11, 2005

"Novel" by George Singleton, The Capital Times, September 9, 2005

"If You Lived Here I'd Know Your Name" by Heather Lende, The Capital Times, August 26, 2005

"The Coast of Akron " by Adrienne Miller, The Capital Times, August 12, 2005

"The Evil B.B. Chow" by Steve Almond, The Capital Times, May 6, 2005

"The Vagabonds" by Nicholas Delbanco, The Capital Times, March 11, 2005 

"Let's Do" by Rebecca Meacham, The Capital Times, February 5, 2005

"Five Shades of Shadow" by Tracy Daugherty, Crab Orchard Review, Spring 2004