The seventh book from Benjamin Percy is the terrifying THE DARK NET. He tells James what he’s learned writing comics, how he juggles his projects, why his sister slept with the lights on into her 20s (spoiler: it’s Ben’s fault), and how he overcame being a closeted genre fan. Plus Percy’s editor and editorial director of fiction at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Helen Atsma.
Benjamin Percy
Benjamin and James Discuss:
Green Arrow
Teen Titans
Black Canary
Dennis O’Neil
Neal Adams
The Justice League
The Flash
Wonder Woman
Batman
Superman
Green Lantern
DC Comics
Juan Ferreyra
THRILL ME by Benjamin Percy
THE WARLORD
Spider-Man
Mike Grell
X-Men
Wolverine
VOODOO HEART by Scott Snyder
WHO CAN SAVE US NOW? ed by Owen King
VERTIGO COMICS
Katherine Fausset
RED MOON by Benjamin Percy
Mark Doyle
DIE HARD
The Pulitzer Price
THE DARK NET by Benjamin Percy
CONAN THE BARBARIAN Soundtrack
Tom Waits
“Red Right Hand” by Nick Cave
Enya
The Jonas Brothers
Rick Astley
Jen Percy
POETS & WRITERS MAGAZINE
REFRESH, REFRESH by Benjamin Percy
THE LANGUAGE OF ELK by Benjamin Percy
Sherman Alexie
Alice Munro
Flannery O’Connor
THRILLING TALES ed. by Michael Chabon
Jim Shepard
Nick Hornby
Margaret Atwood
Susanna Clarke
Kate Atkinson
Peter Straub
Dennis Lehane
Cormac McCarthy
The Tin House Summer Writer’s Workshop
University of Nevada MFA
Kelly Link
Colson Whitehead
Justin Cronin
Karen Russell
WHAT THE WORLD WILL LOOK LIKE WHEN ALL THE WATER LEAVES US by Laura van den Berg
TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
Margot Livesey
Tim O’Brien
GQ
THE DEAD LANDS by Benjamin Percy
THE TWILIGHT ZONE
Powell’s Books
INDEPENDENCE DAY
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James and Helen Discuss:
Steve Martin
“Refresh, Refresh” by Benjamin Percy
THE PARIS REVIEW
Katherine Fausset
TIN HOUSE
Grub Street, Inc.
Graywolf Publishing
THRILL ME by Benjamin Percy
THE WILDING by Benjamin Percy
Grand Central Publishing
THE LONEY by Andrew Michael Hurley
THE WANGS VS. THE WORLD by Jade Chang
THE DARK NET by Benjamin Percy
Stephen King
TOY STORY
JAWS
THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA by C.S. Lewis
ENCYCLOPEDIA BROWN
Archie
E.M. Forster
Alvar Aalto
MISS KOPP’S MIDNIGHT CONFESSIONS by Amy Stewart
GIRL WAITS WITH GUN by Amy Stewart
NEVER COMING BACK by ALISON McGHEE
THE FIRST DAY by Phil Harrison
Marilynne Robinson