I’ll be interviewing Ben on the occasion of his book Cave Mountain, which grew out of his incredible Harper’s piece on his cousin’s disappearance in the Ozarks. Ben’s novelistic talents imbue his nonfiction work on the largest missing persons case in Arkansas history.
Benjamin Hale is the author of the novel The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore and the collection The Fat Artist and Other Stories. His writing has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, Paris Review, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Conjunctions, and has been anthologized in Best American Science and Nature Writing. He is a senior editor at Conjunctions, teaches at Bard College and Columbia University.