Benjamin Anastas

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Benjamin Anastas has received support for his work as a novelist, literary journalist, and critic from the Lannan Foundation and the MacDowell Colony. 

Biography

Anastas is the author of three novels and the memoir Too Good to Be True. His literary journalism, essays, reviews and short fiction have appeared in The New YorkerHarper'sThe New York Times MagazineBookforumThe New RepublicThe Paris Review, Oxford American and numerous other publications in the U.S. and abroad. Anastas was a visiting faculty member at Bennington for the 2012–13 academic year and joined the Bennington faculty in Fall 2013 and has also taught in the Bennington Writing Seminars.

Courses

Fall 2025

Literature
Fall 2025

Spring 2026

Literature
Spring 2026

Spring 2025

Fall 2024

Literature
Fall 2024

Spring 2024

Fall 2023

Black Studies, Literature
Fall 2023

Spring 2023

Literature
Spring 2023
Literature
Spring 2023

Fall 2022

Literature
Fall 2022

Spring 2022

Fall 2021

Spring 2021

Literature
Spring 2021
Literature
Spring 2021

Spring 2020

Spring 2017

Literature
Spring 2017

Fall 2016

Literature
Fall 2016
Literature
Fall 2016

Spring 2016

Literature
Spring 2016
Languages, Literature
Spring 2016
Literature
Spring 2016
Literature
Spring 2016
Literature
Spring 2016