Bender's

Even when otherwise acknoweldging the limitations of one or another conventional approach, as in Keesey's essay or Aimee Bender's essay on "character motivation," the writers can't seem to give up on the assumptions giving rise to the approach.

October 2009 2009

Kafka, Borges, Calvino, and Barthleme, for example, are writers able to carry out such tasks, but Bender's stories do neither.

Experimental Fiction 2010

(Bledsoe even comes close to accurately describing Bender's fiction when she calls it "like a rich dessert," except that, for me at least, it is more like sugar overload.)

Experimental Fiction 2010

Bender's fiction accepts those constraints and relates decidedly familiar stories dressed up in gaudy but cheap disguises.

Experimental Fiction 2010

In a review of Aimee Bender's Willful Creatures, CL Bledsoe concludes that "Bender is that most daring of writers, who will take any risk, regardless of the consequences."

Experimental Fiction 2010

Even when otherwise acknoweldging the limitations of one or another conventional approach, as in Keesey's essay or Aimee Bender's essay on "character motivation," the writers can't seem to give up on the assumptions giving rise to the approach.

Writing and Publishing 2010

Bender's must-read investigation just after Christmas examines the activities of the staggering numbers of top generals who "retire" to highly lucrative consulting or defense industry work.

Janine R. Wedel: Shadow Elite: Eisenhower's Dark Vision Realized - The Military-Industrial Complex At 50 Janine R. Wedel 2011

Bender's work comes a year after USA Today broke the story of so-called "senior military mentors," retired officers who are then brought in to advise their former colleagues on services to buy, even when they might also have financial ties to the company peddling the services.

Janine R. Wedel: Shadow Elite: Eisenhower's Dark Vision Realized - The Military-Industrial Complex At 50 Janine R. Wedel 2011

Jonathon Bender's magical letters to the world that never wrote to him are at once whimsical, anguished, funny, utterly engaging and, finally, unforgettable.

Dear Everybody by Michael Kimball: Book summary 2010

Even when otherwise acknoweldging the limitations of one or another conventional approach, as in Keesey's essay or Aimee Bender's essay on "character motivation," the writers can't seem to give up on the assumptions giving rise to the approach.

Our Stories 2009