Books – BEN BERMAN GHAN

Articles, Ben Berman Ghan, Books, What We See in the Smoke, Writing

What We See [in 2020 and beyond]

January 16, 2020

Welcome to my first blog post set after the events of Blade Runner, but still (thankfully) before the opening of Blade Runner 2049! Welcome to 2020! 2019 was a year of big things for me, and I wanted to take a moment to stop and reflect and give thanks. In between finishing my undergrad at…
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Ben Berman Ghan, Personal Essay, Rambling, toronto, What We See in the Smoke

Summer 2019 – a retrospective

August 26, 2019

I’ve been thinking about time travel a lot lately. Not really because there’s any point I’d like to go back or forwards too especially. Recently I experienced jet lag from travel and came to the conclusion that the fourth dimension must have a sense of humour. Time plays tricks on us. We play tricks on…
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Science Fiction, toronto, What We See in the Smoke, Writing

What We See in the Smoke

March 1, 2019

The world we know is coming to an end. How will we connect in the strange and frightening one that’s coming to take its place? What We See in the Smoke twists the genres of realism and science fiction to tell the future history of Toronto, a story that stretches from this millennium to the next.…
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Articles, Books, Editing, Personal Essay, Writing

Theory of Adaptation in Review

September 26, 2018

Note: Over the next two months I will be writing a series of very short reviews of both critical work and fiction for a special project. As there is nothing more I plan to do with these short reviews, I thought it might be appropriate to post them here over the coming weeks, if only…
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Articles, Ben Berman Ghan, Books, Fantasy, Literature, Personal Essay, Rambling, Science Fiction, toronto

I’m Back! Upcoming Book announcement: What We See in the Smoke

August 24, 2018

Hello, world. Is this thing on? It has been almost an entire year since I last wrote a single blog post. I’ve been keeping things very tight-lipped, close to the chest. My thinking was that I should not discuss any ongoing projects that I wasn’t sure the world was going to see. So I vanished…
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Articles, Ben Berman Ghan, Books, Editing, Kurt Vonnegut, Literature, Personal Essay, Rambling, Writing, Wychman Road

The Ink-Stained-Wretch

November 25, 2016

It’s hard to say where the expression Ink-Stained-Wretch originates. Though I have found almost no reliable sources, at least one researcher told me in passing that the phrase comes from Canadian novelist Hugh Garner. Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Deadeye Dick attributes it to Alexander Woollcott, but this is probably wrong as well. To great alarm, I…
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What We See [in 2020 and beyond]

Summer 2019 – a retrospective

What We See in the Smoke

Theory of Adaptation in Review

I’m Back! Upcoming Book announcement: What We See in the Smoke

The Ink-Stained-Wretch