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Benjamin Percy is the author of two novels, Red Moon (Grand Central/Hachette, 2013) and The Wilding, as well as two books of short stories, Refresh, Refresh and The Language of Elk. His fiction and nonfiction have been published in Esquire (where he is a contributing editor), GQ, Time, Men's Journal, Outside, the Wall Street Journal, Tin House and the Paris Review. His honors include an NEA fellowship, the Whiting Writer's Award, the Plimpton Prize, the Pushcart Prize and inclusion in Best American Short Stories and Best American Comics. He is the writer-in-residence at St. Olaf College and teaches at the low-residency MFA program at Pacific University. Visit his website: www.benjaminpercy.com


Average rating: 3.54 · 2,238 ratings · 484 reviews · 14 distinct works · Similar authors
The Wilding
3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 473 ratings — published 2010 — 11 editions
Refresh, Refresh
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 402 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions
Red Moon
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 2013 — 9 editions
The Language of Elk
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions
Refresh, Refresh: A Graphic...
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3.26 of 5 stars 3.26 avg rating — 284 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions
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Refresh, Refresh: A Short S...
3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2005
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3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 2009
Surreal South: An Anthology...
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4.39 of 5 stars 4.39 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2007
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4.36 of 5 stars 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2012
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" As a big fan of Benjamin Percy's previous works of fiction (The Wilding, Refresh, Refresh and The Language of Elk), I had high expectations for Red Moon. I read an advance copy last month and it immediately catapulted to the top of my Best of 2013... "
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“...if he sees his fellow humans as anything more than complicated animals. Not so different from a deer or a wolf, knitted together with the same sinew but in another design.”
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“When she thinks of the toxins built up inside of her from so many years of eating carelessly, of the resentment that has grown steadily over fifteen years of marriage, of the stretch marks and the varicose veins that came from two pregnancies, only one of them fulfilled, she thinks the inside of her body must tell a story like a tree. Were she to break open a bone, perhaps it would look like the inside of a coffee mug - riddled with lines, stained with brown blotches.”
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“Plagues don't just kill people—and that's what lobos is, a plague—they kill humanity.”
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