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. benfountain.com

Fiction is truer than real life in Rasputin Swims the Potomac, an audacious, rip-roaring, and terrifying good time. Don't read ABOUT this book - it will sound too crazy! Dive in and see for yourself . . . Ben Fountain is a prophet, comic genius and a master storyteller.

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. benfountain.com

Fiction is truer than real life in Rasputin Swims the Potomac, an audacious, rip-roaring, and terrifying good time. Don't read ABOUT this book - it will sound too crazy! Dive in and see for yourself . . . Ben Fountain is a prophet, comic genius and a master storyteller.

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. benfountain.com

Fiction is truer than real life in Rasputin Swims the Potomac, an audacious, rip-roaring, and terrifying good time. Don't read ABOUT this book - it will sound too crazy! Dive in and see for yourself . . . Ben Fountain is a prophet, comic genius and a master storyteller.