Benjamin Roesch

Category: Tributes

  • Post #27: My Obsession With a Small, Be-Spectacled Man

    There’s a small handful of artists with whom I’ve experienced what can only be described as an obsession, and I don’t use that term lightly.  I’m serious.  I was so head over heels for these people’s work that I probably should have been medicated, or sedated.   They include, but…

  • Post #15: The Sky Was Crying

    I have a piece about to come out in Word Riot (Nov. 15th issue) that features a narrator who spends a lot of money on a guitar that looks like one that used to belong to Stevie Ray Vaughan.  It’s not about Stevie Ray, per se, but his image and…

  • Post #2: DFW on the (sub) Brain

    The umbrella topic to start the year in my classes has been “What Does it Mean to be Educated?” but after re-reading and playing the audio to my honors seminar, I’m wondering now if the entire theme and the subsequent class periods spent discussing and writing about it wasn’t subconsciously…

  • Post #1: Fantastic and Twisted Individuals

    I’ll begin my first blog post with a couple of tributes.  First goes to my good friend (and Bread Loaf roommate) Alan Stewart Carl, who can be found on the interweb at alanstewartcarl.blogspot.com.  Read his fiction, much of which can be linked to off his blog.  It’s really good.  And…