Articles
Below is a selection of articles written by Ben Fountain.
D Magazine: Author Ben Fountain Admits He’s a Loser (2012)
Texas Monthly: Jackpot of the Plains (2013)
The Guardian: Ang Lee took the ideas in my book and made them unsettling, thrilling and new (2017)
The Guardian: Land of the free? How Trump has put America’s identity in peril (2018)
Daily Beast: James Baldwin’s ‘Beale Street’ Is Talking Louder Than Ever (2018)
The New York Review of Books: O Billionaires! (2019)
The New York Review of Books: What Has Minimalist Democracy Gotten Us? (2020)
The New York Times: Who Was Nick Before “Gatsby”? (2021)
Texas Monthly: Texas Novelists Are Finally Ready to Grapple With Our History – Yes, All of It (2022)
A National Bestseller
An Editors’ Choice selection by the New York Times Book Review
One of Washington Post‘s 50 notable books of the year
“A sprawling, fierce exploration of violence and corruption in the Caribbean… Readers of international thrillers should pounce.”
—Publishers Weekly
