Ben Fountain

“What he'd like to say is that he's lived it, if not the entire breadth and depth of the Christian faith then…

— Ben Fountain

“The singing triggers a soft detonation at his core, molten parts of him are flying everywhere and his ears ring to the…

— Ben Fountain

The Gilded Age robber barons - the Goulds, the Vanderbilts, the Morgans and Rockefellers - did quite well under laissez-faire. Most of…

— Ben Fountain

“Not that she means anything by it, he knows. This is simply her lifelong habit of moderation at work, her need to…

— Ben Fountain

If a person wants to be of any use to himself, he better insist on getting his fair share of beauty and…

— Ben Fountain

Upward mobility across classes peaked in the U.S. in the late 19th century. Most of the gains of the 20th century were…

— Ben Fountain

I'm a writer, not an editor, and though the editing rarely cut into my writing time, it did take away from that…

— Ben Fountain