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Eric Benson

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Eric Benson is a journalist living in Austin, Texas. His work has been published in New York, Men's Journal, Bookforum, and Guernica.

Articles

Last of the Red Hot Poppas

By Eric Benson

THE VOCATION OF UNHAPPINESS

A review of Olivia Laing's The Trip to Echo Spring.  Does liquor inspire and ignite the words of great alcoholic writers? Or do alcoholic scribes produce their work in spite of their...

By Eric Benson