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Below please find a selection of links to more information about Ben Fountain and his books, including links to interviews, features, and reviews online.
Dallas News: The Great Ben Fountain Left Dallas, but Dallas May Never Let Him Go, by Sarah Hepola (January 2025) pdf version
Ben Fountain is Finalist for 2024 Texan of the Year
Ben Fountain Wins 2024 Thomas Wolfe Prize, awarded by the Department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC-Chapel Hill (October 2024)
Ben Fountain Wins 2024 Joyce Carol Oates Prize from New Literary Project (May 8, 2024)
Storytellers’ Studio: Anarchy in Haiti: An interview with Ben Fountain on ‘Devil Makes Three’ (Nov 17, 2023)
B&N Podcast: Poured Over Double Shot: Nathan Hill and Ben Fountain (Sep 19, 2023)
D Magazine: Dallas Author Ben Fountain Returns With a Trip to Haiti, by Zac Crain (Sep 7, 2023)
The Wrath-Bearing Tree: “I Like the Real Stuff”—WBT Interviews Ben Fountain (2019)
The Guardian: Malcolm Gladwell meets Ben Fountain: ‘So much of politics is absurd and dumb’ (2018)
Dallas News: Ben Fountain explains the roots of his righteous rage in ‘Beautiful Country Burn Again’, by Chris Vognar (2018) pdf version
Texas Monthly: Ben Fountain Undoes Dallas, by Jeff Salamon (2012)
D Magazine: How Ben Fountain Overcame Being Called a Genius, by Zac Crain (2012)
The New Yorker: Late Bloomers, by Malcolm Gladwell (2008)
Ben Fountain wins the 2024 Thomas Wolfe Prize & 2024 Joyce Carol Oates Prize
Devil Makes Three
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A National Bestseller
An Editors’ Choice selection by the New York Times Book Review
One of Washington Post‘s 50 notable books of 2023
“A sprawling, fierce exploration of violence and corruption in the Caribbean… Readers of international thrillers should pounce.”
—Publishers Weekly
