Benjamin Nugent is an American writer, best known for the book American Nerd: The Story of My People [1] and Good Kids, a novel.
Biography
Benjamin Nugent is the author of the novel Good Kids (Scribner), the cultural history American Nerd (Scribner), and the short story collection Fraternity (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). His short stories have appeared in The Paris Review, Tin House, and Vice, and have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 2014 and The Unprofessionals: New American Writing from the Paris Review.
His journalism has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Op/Ed Page, Time, GQ, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and n+1. He earned the Bachelor's in English from Reed College, and was an Arts Fellow at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, from which he earned the MFA in fiction.
References
- ^ Neyfakh, Leon (2009-03-31). Nerd TV (HTML). The New York Observer. The New York Observer, LLC. April 5, 2009.
External links
- Audio interview regarding "American Nerd" on public radio program The Sound of Young America
- Salon.com interview with Nugent
- CNN.com review of Elliott Smith and the Big Nothing
- Cloud Room page
- n+1 article
- Official Site