Notes from the Fog: Stories

Copyright

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Copyright © 2018 by Ben Marcus

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto.

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Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.

Several stories were first published in the following publications Bomb: “The Trees of Sawtooth Park” · Frieze: “Critique” as “Notes from the Hospital” (2013) · Granta: “George and Elizabeth” (November 2015) · Harper’s Magazine: “A Suicide of Trees” as “A Failure of Concern” (January 2008) · The New Yorker: “Blueprint for St. Louis” (October 2017); “Cold Little Bird” (October 2015); “The Grow-Light Blues” (June 2015); “Stay Down and Take It” (May 2018) · Tablet Magazine: “Omen” as “A Problem with the Sun” (2015) · The Thing Quarterly: “Lotion” as “Prophecy” (Issue 21).

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Marcus, Ben, [date] author.

Title: Speeding pieces of light : stories / Ben Marcus.

Description: First edition, | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017054648 (print) | LCCN 2017057668 (ebook) | ISBN 9781101947456 (hardcover : acid-free paper) | ISBN 9781101947463 (ebook)

Subjects: | BISAC: FICTION / Literary. | FICTION / Short Stories (single author).

Classification: LCC PS3563.A6375 (ebook) | LCC PS3563.A6375 A6 2018 (print) | DDC 813/.54—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017054648

Ebook ISBN 9781101947463

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Cover photograph by Alexander Mourant

Cover design by Peter Mendelsund

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