Benjamin Kunkel

Benjamin Kunkel ( born December 14, 1972 in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, USA) is an American author.

Life

Kunkel grew up in Eagle, Colorado and attended as a pupil of a boarding school in New Hampshire, then the Deep Springs College in California, then he studied at Harvard and at Columbia University. He, along with Mark Greif, Chad Harbach and other co-founder of since the fall of 2004, all three -monthly cultural magazine "n 1" and already wrote for " Dissent ", " The Nation " and "The New York Review of Books ". His debut novel " Indecision ," a coming of age novel with references to September 11, which he began in the fall of 2001 in a forest cabin in Colorado and was published in the fall of 2005 in the U.S., already regarded today as New York's cult novel. He is end of August 2006 published in the German translation by Stefanie Roeder under the title " Undecided ".

Quotes

" Writing about culture is largely bound in the United States to things that can be commercialized. "

Work

• Indecision (2005 ) - ISBN 0-8129-7651-7 ( German translation: Undecided From the American Stefanie Roeder Berlin: Bloomsbury Berlin 2006 - ISBN 3-827-00680-5. )
• The next step. The n 1 anthology. Edited by Benjamin Kunkel and Keith Gessen. From the American Kevin Vennemann. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2008.