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Ben Roth

Ben Roth teaches philosophy and writing at Tufts and Harvard. Beyond his scholarly work, Roth has published short fiction with Nanoism, Flash, Blink-Ink, Sci Phi Journal, Aesthetics for Birds, Cuento Magazine, 101 Words, decomp journal, Bodega Magazine, and Gambling the Aisle, and criticism with Chicago Review, AGNI Online, 3:AM Magazine, The Millions, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. A recommendation flowchart he created for philosophical novels a couple of years ago was picked up by Open Culture and Lit Hub and has been shared thousands of times online.

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Ben Roth

This is the story of how a bookstore briefly became a shrine. But it doesn’t go the way you think. Listen and wonder at the tale I have to tell. Nothing in this world had prepared him for what he found that afternoon ...