Ben Purkert

Ben Purkert is the author of the poetry collection For the Love of Endings. His work appears in The New Yorker, the Nation, and the Kenyon Review, among others. He is the founder of Back Draft, a Guernica interview series focused on revision and the creative process. He holds degrees from Harvard and New York University, and he currently teaches at Rutgers. Men Can’t Be Saved is his first novel.

Ben Purkert's Titles

Men Can't Be Saved A Novel

The Men Can't Be Saved

* A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF SUMMER 2023 *NYLON *THE MILLIONS*LITHUB*DEBUTIFUL*AND MORE!*"Blistering . . . Mad Menambition meets an epic, existential...