Articles
Below is a selection of articles written by Ben Fountain.
Texas Monthly: Texas Novelists Are Finally Ready to Grapple With Our History – Yes, All of It (2022)
The New York Times: Who Was Nick Before “Gatsby”? (2021)
The New York Review of Books: What Has Minimalist Democracy Gotten Us? (2020)
The New York Review of Books: O Billionaires! (2019)
Daily Beast: James Baldwin’s ‘Beale Street’ Is Talking Louder Than Ever (2018)
The Guardian: Land of the free? How Trump has put America’s identity in peril (2018)
The Guardian: Ang Lee took the ideas in my book and made them unsettling, thrilling and new (2017)
Texas Monthly: Jackpot of the Plains (2013)
D Magazine: Author Ben Fountain Admits He’s a Loser (2012)
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