“It’s this complexity, the incommunicability of our pain, that makes us unreachable to one another…this novel conveys the problem; it is also, in its unsentimental sensitivity, a kind of corrective.” Read the review here.
Posted in News | Leave a commentLooking forward to my panel at the Los Angeles Times Book Festival! I’ll be part of the panel “The Home Front” on Saturday, April 20, 3:30 pm, at the Annenberg Auditorium at USC. You can see the schedule for the … Continue reading
Posted in News | Leave a commentJulian Callos shares his process of coming up with the drawings that illustrated my New York Times essay, “The Accidental Writer.” You can see the drawings here.
Posted in News | Leave a commentI talk to the website Litwrap about point of view and process. You can read the interview here.
Posted in News | Leave a commentYou can listen to the interview here.
Posted in News | Leave a commentYou can read my interview with David Ulin for the Los Angeles Times here.
Posted in News | Leave a commentA rock made me into a writer. You can find out how this happened in my essay “The Accidental Writer,” which appeared in the Sunday New York Times Book Review, here.
Posted in On Writing | Leave a commentWhen I was six years old, I was hit on the head with a rock. How did this lead to my life as a writer? Read my essay here.
Posted in News | Leave a commentRead the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Review here.
Posted in News | Leave a comment“In the very best of fiction, an intimate, spiritual communion momentarily transpires between reader and author. In the case of Bender’s novel, these moments occur during these flawless passages of authentic longing and isolation. Like some of today’s best contemporary … Continue reading
Posted in News | Leave a commentToday my second novel, A Town of Empty Rooms, is born.
Posted in News | Leave a comment“This book would be a great discussion piece on the interplay between religion and society as we navigate the personal and the public and the place of religious life in our culture at large.” Read the rest of his terrific … Continue reading
Posted in News | Leave a commentBen Steelman interviews me for the Star-News. Read the interview here.
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Posted in News | Leave a commentRead an excerpt of my novel here. http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/
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