Benjamin Kunkel

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Benjamin Kunkel (born December 14, 1972 in Glenwood Springs , Colorado ) is an American author .

Life

Kunkel grew up in Eagle , Colorado and attended boarding school in New Hampshire , then Deep Springs College in California , then studied at Harvard with a Master of Arts and at Columbia University with a Master of Fine Arts (MFA ) in creative writing .

Together with Mark Greif , Chad Harbach and others, Kunkel is the founders of the culture magazine n + 1, which has been published every three months since autumn 2004 . He writes for Dissent , The Nation, and The New York Review of Books .

Kunkels debut novel Indecision , a development novel with references to September 11th , which he began in autumn 2001 in a forest hut in Colorado and which was published in the USA in autumn 2005, was considered a cult novel in New York . In Utopia or Bust he wrote essays on what he considered to be the most important Marxist thinkers of our time.

With Buzz , Kunkel wrote a play that opened in New York in October 2014.

Quotes

"Writing about culture in the United States is largely tied to things that can be commercialized."

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  • Indecision (2005) - ISBN 0-8129-7651-7 (German translation: Undecided From the American by Stefanie Röder. Berlin: Bloomsbury Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-827-00680-5 )
  • One step further. The n + 1 anthology. Edited by Benjamin Kunkel and Keith Gessen . From the American by Kevin Vennemann . Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 2008.
  • Utopia or Bust: A Guide to the Present Crisis . ( Jacobin ), 2014
    • Utopia or doom. A guide to the current crisis . From the American by Richard Barth. Berlin: Suhrkamp 2014

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quoted from Thomas David: My success is a misunderstanding , on faz.net , accessed on 7. February 2019
personal data
SURNAME Kunkel, Benjamin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Glenwood Springs , Colorado , USA