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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...

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.

Let There Be Light

Over 185 years since Nicéphore Niépce took the world’s first photograph—a photogravure of Pope Pius VII in 1822—the process of photography continues to develop in unanticipated ways. From heliography and silver chloride to Adobe Lightroom and digital single-lens reflex cameras, pioneers would scarcely recognize the 19th-century industry they helped to define.

"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book."

Marcus Tullius Cicero

About

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

Forthcoming: A short story in Flyway (Dec.)

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.