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Nowhere Ho!
Nothing says the Holocaust like Anne Frank's diary. On July 18, 1945, after his return to Amsterdam from Auschwitz, Otto Frank received an answer to his newspaper advertisement from two sisters who had seen his daughters die in Bergen-Belsen...
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The Literati, Child’s Play, and Happy Hour
Do you like books? Do you like fast-paced intellectual discussions? Do you like drinking in bars and—this is an important one—do you like Chicago in the winter? If you do, you're invited to join me next year at AWP 2012.
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My name is Ben Pfeiffer, and I am the co-editor of Beecher’s at the University of Kansas, where I am an MFA Candidate in Fiction. My writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Rumpus, The Faster Times, The Moon City Review, and Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment. I am currently writing my first novel. You can find all about my projects, future events, and forthcoming writing on this page.
Beecher’s
I currently serve as the co-editor of Beecher’s at The University of Kansas. Graduate students founded this publication in the Fall of 2010, and named it for Henry Ward Beecher, brother of Harriet Beecher-Stowe, who once smuggled rifles to Kansas in harmless-looking crates stamped BOOKS or BIBLES.
Writing
A short story, “Gemstone,” in Flyway.
A book review of Shalom Auslander’s Hope: A Tragedy: A Novel at The Rumpus.
An interview on HTMLGIANT about Beecher’s.
A book review of Rosalyn Drexler’s To Smithereens at The Rumpus.