In the January, 2015 issue, O magazine reviews Refund: “Each day Bender’s cast of ordinary people struggle to make sense of their debts, their fears, and how to be satisfied with what they’ve got, in short stories that are both … Continue reading
Posted in News | Leave a commentIn the December, 2014 issue, More magazine reviews Refund: “Stories about hustlers, heirs, wage slaves, moguls, and the newly impoverished. “Is this where my life has led?” asks a hard-up character. “Where do I go now?” A fictional bonanza for … Continue reading
Posted in News | Leave a commentThanks to PW for this beautiful review: “The stories’ strengths stem from Bender’s beautiful writing and her ability to convey the wonder and dread of ordinary life, the things we might notice—whether with terror or with joy—if we weren’t too … Continue reading
Posted in News | Leave a comment“Every once in a while a book steps onto the stage and convinces readers all over again that literature is the great companion and interpreter of life. This is one of those books. In these eleven absolutely masterful stories by … Continue reading
Posted in News | Leave a comment“In an American moment where money rules and anxieties fester, Karen Bender has stepped in to tell all our stories with unsettling honesty, an eye for our absurdities, and an openness to the moments of grace that keep us going. … Continue reading
Posted in News | Leave a commentA new short story, “For What Purpose?” is now up in the American Empires issue of Guernica magazine. The story is from my new collection, “Refund.” You can read the story here.
Posted in News | Leave a comment“The Emotional Power of Verbs,” which appeared in the Draft column last December, was noted in an online class taught by Susan Orlean in her Skillshare class. You can read about her class here.
Posted in News | Leave a commentNarrative.ly publishes my piece on Taiwan’s Homemakers’ Union Consumer Co-op. You can read the article here.
Posted in News | Leave a comment“Money, money! The things we’ll do to get it, the distortions (especially when children are involved) of the space between desire and satisfaction: these are Karen Bender’s subjects, which she handles with savage wit, great economy, and a brilliant instinct … Continue reading
Posted in News | Leave a comment“In Refund, Karen Bender offers us a vision of contemporary life that is tragic and deeply funny, disturbing and – most of all – true. These are stories about us, women and men living with the trappings of comfort and … Continue reading
Posted in News | Leave a comment“These stories are among the best short fiction I’ve read in a generation. From the chains of straw and coins and angels that bind us to earth, Bender weaves not only gold, but the rings of Saturn.” —Jacquelyn Mitchard, author … Continue reading
Posted in News | Leave a commentMy article on pets, Taiwan, the low birth rate, and the complex nature of love is up on The Atlantic website: you can read the piece here.
Posted in News | Leave a comment“Refund” is coming out January 13, 2015, but you can order it here and here and here.
Posted in News | Leave a commentRabbi Anne Perry reviews A Town of Empty Rooms; you can read her review here.
Posted in News | Leave a commentMy short story, “The Sea Turtle Hospital,” has just been published in issue 46/47 of Story Quarterly. You can find out more about the magazine here.
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