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
editNugent 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 at the University of Iowa, where he earned the MFA in fiction.
References
edit- ^ Neyfakh, Leon (2009-03-31). Nerd TV (HTML). The New York Observer. The New York Observer, LLC. April 5, 2009.
External links
edit- 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