Hi, I'm Ben. I'm the author of A Cadence, a new fairy tale about beauty, stupidity, grief and revenge.

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My greatest hits

February 15, 2011

Here are my 10 most popular blog posts, from 2006 to 2011.

Twice in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, the wild things “roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.”

Phoenix Fry writes: “I started crying just two minutes into the beginning of Where the Wild Things Are and barely stopped for the whole film…”

Ghostwriting is often presented as a process of revelation: the author provides information orally, and the ghostwriter writes it down. But writing can never be merely technical.

Autobiography and authorship

January 12, 2011

When we read autobiography, we think we are discovering the real person behind the story. But many studies of authorship ask us to reconsider traditional ideas about the author as originator.