Ben McCormick is a Wisconsin-bred writer. His fiction has been published by Passages North, and is a MFA candidate at Texas State where he is the nonfiction editor of Porter House Review. Tweet him nice things @caseofthebens.
Content by Ben McCormick
Interviews,
“How Did This Get Made?”: Our Nonfiction Editor in Conversation with Jill Sisson Quinn
“I think it’s always hard to take edits. It feels like someone is cutting off your limbs.”
Reviews,
The Heart’s Home is a Trojan Horse: On Raphael Bob-Waksberg’s “Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory”
A good writer drops readers miles from where they expected; great ones like Raphael Bob-Waksberg take readers just where they want to go, but when they arrive, the landscape doesn’t look how they remember.
Arts & Culture, Field Notes,
An Exercise from Matt Bell’s Writing Exercise Newsletter
In the name of productivity during social distancing, Porter House Review is republishing Matt Bell’s first exercise from his Writing Exercise Newsletter, which is based on a sentence from Carmen Maria Machado’s story, “The Husband Stitch.”
Interviews,
“That’s How Civilians Think”: A Failed Carpool Karaoke Interview with Daniel Alarcón
The part that sounds weird to non-writers is that—What is this about observing people who only exist in your mind? But that’s how civilians think. To people who do what we do, that doesn’t sound weird at all. That’s the whole job: observing people who aren’t real.