February 5, 2009. University of Missouri-Columbia.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008. Mary Louise White Visiting Writer Series. SUNY-Fredonia.
September 21-26, 2008. Fall for the Book Festival. George Mason University. Fairfax, Virginia.
June 20, 2008. 8pm. With James Devita. The Alley Stage at Shake Rag Alley. Mineral Point, WI.
May 16, 2008. Knox College. Galesburg, Illinois.
April 8, 2008. 5 pm. As part of the Ropewalk Reading Series at the University of Southern Indiana. Kleymeyer Hall in USI's Liberal Arts Center. RESCHEDULED FOR MONDAY, APRIL 14.
April 3, 2008. 12:15-1:30. University of Hartford. Wilde Auditorium. Hartford, CN.
January 30 - February 2, 2008. AWP Conference. Graywolf reading -- with Ron Carlson. NYC.
December 7, 2007. Gist Street Reading Series. Pittsburgh, PA. With David Griffith. To learn more about the reading series click here.
Thursday, November 15, 2007. 7pm. Shaman Drum bookstore. Ann Arbor, MI.
Monday, November 5, 2007. 7 pm. With Ellen Litman. Harry W. Schwartz Bookstores. Downer Ave. Milwaukee, WI.
November 1-4, 2007. The Nature of Words literary festival in Bend, Oregon. Scheduled to read at the Tower Theater and to lead two workshops. To learn more about the festival click here.
Sunday, October 28, 2007. 1:30-3:15. Waukesha Public Library. Waukesha, WI.
Thursday, October 25, 2007. 192 Books--sponsored by Symphony Space. New York. Actor Ted Marcoux will read "Refresh, Refresh" followed by a conversation with Ben.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007. With Roy Kesey, as part of the Happy Ending reading series. At the Happy Ending Bar, 302 Broome Street, NY.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007. Micawbers Bookstore. St. Paul, MN.
Thursday, October 18, 2007. Seminary Co-op Bookstore. Chicago.
October 18-21, 2007. Chippewa Valley Book Festival. Eau Claire, Wisconsin. To learn more about the festival click here.
October 14, 2007. 4-5pm. Wisconsin Book Festival. Overture Center for the Arts, 201 State Street. Madison, WI. With Danielle Trussoni.
Monday, October 8, 2007. 7pm. Marquette University's Weasler Auditorium, 15th and Wells, Milwaukee, WI. Wisconsin Authors' Night. With Larry Watson and Jane Hamilton.
Thursday, October 4, 2007, 7:30pm. Sponsored by Bookslut. A reading at The Hopleaf Bar, 5148 N. Clark Street, Andersonville, IL.
Saturday, June 12, 2007. 4-6:30 PM. New York Public Library, Periodical Room, Fifth Ave @ 42nd Street. As part of "The Magathon," Laura van den Berg (fiction editor of Redivider) will read from Ben's story, "The Faulty Builder." Sponsored by CLMP.
As part of Symphony Space's "Selected Shorts" series, National Public Radio broadcast actor Ted Marcoux's reading of "Refresh, Refresh" -- followed by an interview with Ben -- on March 10-16, 2007. Click here to download the program.
February 7, 8, 9, 10, 2007. 8pm. Synesthesia. A yearly festival that showcases a unique fusion of art forms in one cohesive two-hour evening performance. The culmination of months of work by musicians, sculptors, actors, writers, directors, photographers, dancers and a multitude of other artists who come together to engage each other in a cross-genre conversation. Harris Lieberman Gallery, 89 Vandam Street (Hudson & Greenwich), NY.
In a special program of the Symphony Space series, "SELECTED SHORTS: A CELEBRATION OF THE SHORT STORY" to be presented in San Antonio on Feb. 3 (1 performance) and at the Dallas Museum of Art on Feb. 5 (2 consecutive peformances). Read by actor Ted Marcoux.
Wednesday, November 15, 2006. The Little Read Book. 6:30 pm. 7603 W State St
Wauwatosa, WI.
Sunday, October 22, 2006. Wisconsin Book Festival. 6pm. Promenade Hall/Overture Center for the Arts, 201 State St. Madison, WI. Reading with
Dean Bakopoulos and Dan Chaon.
Monday, October 16, 2006. Wisconsin Authors Night. 7pm. Weasler Auditorium, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI. Reading with Michael Perry, Elizabeth Berg, Liam Callanan, CJ Hribal, Larry Watson, and others.
Wednesday, October 4, 2006. Symphony Space. New York City. 6:30 p.m. The Best American Short Stories 2006 Hosted by Ann Patchett A part of the Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story series.
Ann Arbor Book Festival in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Saturday, May 14, 2006, 2:00 p.m. MainStage West -- Borders Stage. Panel discussion - The Literary Youth Movement , with Steven Gillis, Dean Bakopoulos, Jason Ockert, and Kellie W. Wells. This panel discussion will look at the struggles and successes of new and emerging writers and at the current market for new works. Book signings will follow.
Representing The Paris Review for "Periodically Speaking: Literary Magazine Editors Introducing Emerging Writers" (a reading organized by the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses); Tuesday, June 13, 2006, from 6:00 - 7:30 PM in the Dewitt Wallace Periodicals Room, New York Public Library.
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