Ben Fountain
Ben Fountain’s work has received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and has been a finalist for the National Book award and runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. HIs fiction has been published in Esquire, Harper’s, The Paris Review and Zoetrope: All-Story, and his non-fiction has appeared in the Guardian and the New York Times, among other publications. He lives in North Carolina.
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Ben Fountain reads from Billy Lynn’s Longtime Walk at the 2012 National Book Awards Finalists’ Reading. (It won the the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.)
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
“The men of Bravo are not cold. It’s a chilly and windwhipped Thanksgiving Day with sleet and freezing rain forecast for late afternoon, but Bravo is nicely blazed on Jack and Cokes thanks to the epic crawl of game-day traffic and the limo’s minibar…” Read an extract from Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
Ben Fountain
NPR
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
An exhilarating ride; funny, oddly touching, written with garish clarity … And in Billy we’ve found a hero for our times.
Mark Wilson
Independent
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Mariella Frostrup talks to Ben Fountain about his bestselling novel Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
Open Book
BBC
The trailer for the Ang Lee adaptation of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, based on the novel by Ben Fountain