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Bennett Sims is an American fiction writer with three book publications, the novel A Questionable Shape (2013) and the short story collections White Dialogues and Other Minds and Other Stories. He is an assistant professor at the University of Iowa .
Bennett Sims. Assistant Professor. Bennett Sims is the author of the novel A Questionable Shape, which received the Bard Fiction Prize and was a finalist for The Believer Book Award, and the collection White Dialogues. He is a recipient of a Michener-Copernicus Society Fellowship and the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome.
Nov 17, 2023 · Bennett Sims on Style, Sebald, and. His New Short Story Collection. By Ryan Ruby. November 17, 2023. Photo courtesy of Bennett Sims. Last month, I attended a boozy party at the Brooklyn apartment of the novelist Mark de Silva. A group in the backyard fell into a round of the classic parlor game: who is the most talented writer of our generation?
Nov 16, 2023 · Author Spotlight: Bennett Sims, “Other Minds and Other Stories” by Sam Franzini. November 16, 2023. Reading Bennett Sims is a little like finding yourself in a dark forest, trudging your way through with little to no light to let you see where you’re going — in a good way.
- Sam Franzini
Dec 1, 2023 · December 1, 2023. A Review of Bennett Sims’s Other Minds and Other Stories. by Joe Sacksteder. 0. Bennett Sims spent a year in Rome at the American Academy after having received the Rome Prize for Literature, and the influence of his time there is evident in his new collection, Other Minds and Other Stories, just out from Two Dollar Radio.
- Joe Sacksteder
Nov 14, 2023 · Bennett Sims. 4.09. 128 ratings43 reviews. From the award-winning author of A Questionable Shape and White Dialogues , a brilliant, anxious, and hilarious new collection. A man lends his phone to a stranger in the mall, setting off an uncanny series of Unknown calls that come to haunt his relationship with jealousy and dread.
Bennett Sims was born and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His fiction has appeared in A Public Space, Tin House, and Zoetrope: All-Story. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he currently teaches at the University of Iowa, where he is the Provost Postgraduate Visiting Writer in fiction.
