Sarah Lawrence College MFA Writing Faculty member Ben Purkert reads from his recently published novel The Men Can’t Be Saved. Book sales and signing to follow.
Ben Purkert is a poet and novelist. His debut novel, The Men Can't Be Saved, came out in August 2023 from Overlook/Abrams. He is also the author of the poetry collection For the Love of Endings (Four Way Books, 2018), named one of Adroit's Best Poetry Collections of the Year. His writing appears in The New Yorker, The Nation, Poetry, Kenyon Review, Slate, McSweeney's, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. A former Guernica editor, he is the founder of Back Draft, an interview series focused on revision and the creative process. He holds degrees from Harvard and NYU, and currently lives in Jersey City.
This event is colloquium credit eligible.
MFA Writing Colloquium: Ben Purkert Fiction Reading
Heimbold Visual Arts Center HEIM 202 Donnelley Film Theatre
Open to the public
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