Ben Greenman
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Ben Greenman (born 1969) is an American writer and magazine editor.
Greenman was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Miami Florida. He attended Miami Palmetto High School and then Yale University. After Yale, he worked as a film critic at New Times newspaper in Miami and then moved to New York City to work as a freelance writer and editor. His journalism has appered in such magazines as Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, Time Out New York, and other publications. In 2000, he joined the staff of the New Yorker magazine, where he edits the Goings On About Town Section.
Greenman's first book of fiction, Superbad, was published by McSweeneys Press in 2001. The book is a collection of stories, most humorous, dealing with such issues as creativity, originality, and pop culture while also experimenting with fictional forms. Superworse, published by SoftSkull Press in 2004, reworked some of the material from Superbad but added a more novelistic structure to the the book. His third book, tentatively titled A Circle is a Compass and Balloon Both, will be published in the summer of 2007.
In addition to his books, Greenman has contributed to several anthologies and online literary magazines, often with highly conceptual works. He has penned a series of musicals that reflect on current-events happenings of the day, invented the Conceptual Art Registry (in which he generates hundreds of ideas for conceptual art shows and then licenses them to young artsts), and authored a series of epistolary stories that attack the conservative talk-show host Sean Hannity.
