Ben Allee
@benallee.bsky.social
Georgia-based writer & media omnivore. Words in Bull, Roi Fainéant, X-R-A-Y. MEDIAC upcoming with Anxiety Press. Full portfolio @ Medium
Twitter: @allee_ben
Medium: @benr.allee
Twitter: @allee_ben
Medium: @benr.allee
Crazy turnout for the Mediac #booklaunch party yesterday! Delightful (& unsettling) readings from satirical food review maverick @nershwood.bsky.social and fantasy phenom Thomas (T.M.) May.
Thanks to everyone for getting this @anxietypress.bsky.social joint out into the ether.
Thanks to everyone for getting this @anxietypress.bsky.social joint out into the ether.
July 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Crazy turnout for the Mediac #booklaunch party yesterday! Delightful (& unsettling) readings from satirical food review maverick @nershwood.bsky.social and fantasy phenom Thomas (T.M.) May.
Thanks to everyone for getting this @anxietypress.bsky.social joint out into the ether.
Thanks to everyone for getting this @anxietypress.bsky.social joint out into the ether.
July 14, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Exceedingly proud of this well-curated recently played lineup.
July 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Exceedingly proud of this well-curated recently played lineup.
No luck breaking top 10 in the contemporary fiction category, but Mediac has taken its rightful place *above* Kazuo Ishiguro and Krasznahorkai on the coveted Kindle Absurdism charts.
'Bout dang time.
Feels pretty breezy up here.
'Bout dang time.
Feels pretty breezy up here.
July 2, 2025 at 1:28 PM
No luck breaking top 10 in the contemporary fiction category, but Mediac has taken its rightful place *above* Kazuo Ishiguro and Krasznahorkai on the coveted Kindle Absurdism charts.
'Bout dang time.
Feels pretty breezy up here.
'Bout dang time.
Feels pretty breezy up here.
Just shy of the top 10 new releases in its category.
Let's get this thing to the top-a-da charts, eh?
Let's get this thing to the top-a-da charts, eh?
July 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Just shy of the top 10 new releases in its category.
Let's get this thing to the top-a-da charts, eh?
Let's get this thing to the top-a-da charts, eh?
MEDIAC is out now w/ @anxietypress.bsky.social
🔗⬇️
15 anxious tales, fit for those who liked:
- Aronofsky’s Black Swan
- Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler / Velvet Buzzsaw
- Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer
- Nabokov’s Pale Fire
- John Logan’s play Red, about Mark Rothko
And other arty thrills.
#booklaunch
🔗⬇️
15 anxious tales, fit for those who liked:
- Aronofsky’s Black Swan
- Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler / Velvet Buzzsaw
- Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer
- Nabokov’s Pale Fire
- John Logan’s play Red, about Mark Rothko
And other arty thrills.
#booklaunch
June 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
MEDIAC is out now w/ @anxietypress.bsky.social
🔗⬇️
15 anxious tales, fit for those who liked:
- Aronofsky’s Black Swan
- Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler / Velvet Buzzsaw
- Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer
- Nabokov’s Pale Fire
- John Logan’s play Red, about Mark Rothko
And other arty thrills.
#booklaunch
🔗⬇️
15 anxious tales, fit for those who liked:
- Aronofsky’s Black Swan
- Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler / Velvet Buzzsaw
- Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer
- Nabokov’s Pale Fire
- John Logan’s play Red, about Mark Rothko
And other arty thrills.
#booklaunch
June 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Book launch party coming up! To celebrate the publication of Mediac from @thinsliceofanxiety, join myself and friends at Buvez on Thursday, 7/17 from 7-9pm. We’ll have readings from local writers and copies of Mediac (& more!) for sale. Free & open to the public (1/3)
#indiepublishing #booksky
#indiepublishing #booksky
June 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Book launch party coming up! To celebrate the publication of Mediac from @thinsliceofanxiety, join myself and friends at Buvez on Thursday, 7/17 from 7-9pm. We’ll have readings from local writers and copies of Mediac (& more!) for sale. Free & open to the public (1/3)
#indiepublishing #booksky
#indiepublishing #booksky
A few of the MEDIACs in my upcoming collection from @anxietypress.bsky.social:
- A Brutalist architect’s most dedicated fan
- An ad-man desperate for approval
- A horror writer who just lost his muse
- A photographer who shoots more than he can handle
- A very, very talented young painter
- A Brutalist architect’s most dedicated fan
- An ad-man desperate for approval
- A horror writer who just lost his muse
- A photographer who shoots more than he can handle
- A very, very talented young painter
June 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
A few of the MEDIACs in my upcoming collection from @anxietypress.bsky.social:
- A Brutalist architect’s most dedicated fan
- An ad-man desperate for approval
- A horror writer who just lost his muse
- A photographer who shoots more than he can handle
- A very, very talented young painter
- A Brutalist architect’s most dedicated fan
- An ad-man desperate for approval
- A horror writer who just lost his muse
- A photographer who shoots more than he can handle
- A very, very talented young painter
Keep your eyes open, folks--a new book of short stories titled MEDIAC is trying to sneak onto your bookshelf and e-reader, and you're the only one who can stop it. Raise awareness to prevent unwanted intrusions of well-curated catalogues around the world.
@anxietypress.bsky.social
#booksky
@anxietypress.bsky.social
#booksky
June 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Keep your eyes open, folks--a new book of short stories titled MEDIAC is trying to sneak onto your bookshelf and e-reader, and you're the only one who can stop it. Raise awareness to prevent unwanted intrusions of well-curated catalogues around the world.
@anxietypress.bsky.social
#booksky
@anxietypress.bsky.social
#booksky
Some images just floor you, speaking words across time and space you never thought you'd hear.
Nanjing University, Gulou Campus, by Caitriana Nicholson, via Wikipedia.
Nanjing University, Gulou Campus, by Caitriana Nicholson, via Wikipedia.
May 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Some images just floor you, speaking words across time and space you never thought you'd hear.
Nanjing University, Gulou Campus, by Caitriana Nicholson, via Wikipedia.
Nanjing University, Gulou Campus, by Caitriana Nicholson, via Wikipedia.
Today, more #architecture:
The impossible-to-conceptualize Dimetrodon, a structure emblematic of the Vermont Design/Build movement of the late 60s/early 70s, influenced by the recently deceased David Sellers.
Yeah, this is all the same building. Images via the Fleming Museum.
The impossible-to-conceptualize Dimetrodon, a structure emblematic of the Vermont Design/Build movement of the late 60s/early 70s, influenced by the recently deceased David Sellers.
Yeah, this is all the same building. Images via the Fleming Museum.
March 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Today, more #architecture:
The impossible-to-conceptualize Dimetrodon, a structure emblematic of the Vermont Design/Build movement of the late 60s/early 70s, influenced by the recently deceased David Sellers.
Yeah, this is all the same building. Images via the Fleming Museum.
The impossible-to-conceptualize Dimetrodon, a structure emblematic of the Vermont Design/Build movement of the late 60s/early 70s, influenced by the recently deceased David Sellers.
Yeah, this is all the same building. Images via the Fleming Museum.
Between these two posts, this week marks a wild turning point in presidential media depravity
February 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Between these two posts, this week marks a wild turning point in presidential media depravity
recent comic haul
cat not included
cat not included
February 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
recent comic haul
cat not included
cat not included
After several weeks in USPS purgatorio, finally received a self-care package/late Christmas present with much anticipated work by @dfitzgerraldo.bsky.social, @raviddice.bsky.social, and Yarrow Paisley
Team over @whiskeytit.com are MVP's for sticking with this shipment--y'all've earned a fan :)
Team over @whiskeytit.com are MVP's for sticking with this shipment--y'all've earned a fan :)
February 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM
After several weeks in USPS purgatorio, finally received a self-care package/late Christmas present with much anticipated work by @dfitzgerraldo.bsky.social, @raviddice.bsky.social, and Yarrow Paisley
Team over @whiskeytit.com are MVP's for sticking with this shipment--y'all've earned a fan :)
Team over @whiskeytit.com are MVP's for sticking with this shipment--y'all've earned a fan :)
Unexpectedly, an original picture-poem for you
February 6, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Unexpectedly, an original picture-poem for you
Ah yes, Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows, my favorite children's novel. I had it shelved between 'goodnight moon' and 'boom chicka boom boom,' but recently moved it closer to 'are you my mother' due to its more mature themes.
January 31, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Ah yes, Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows, my favorite children's novel. I had it shelved between 'goodnight moon' and 'boom chicka boom boom,' but recently moved it closer to 'are you my mother' due to its more mature themes.
Snow + dipping back into a backburner manuscript for the first time in a year + ethel (the bear-thing on the right)
#writing #writers #writingcommunity
#writing #writers #writingcommunity
January 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Snow + dipping back into a backburner manuscript for the first time in a year + ethel (the bear-thing on the right)
#writing #writers #writingcommunity
#writing #writers #writingcommunity
All hail the New Yorker copyeditors, who sit on high in ethereal realmes, raining down such arcana from planes beyond our own: platonically perfect spellings of word-essences truer than our minds can comprehend. May we someday learn these things. May we someday write: "Web site".
January 7, 2025 at 1:53 PM
All hail the New Yorker copyeditors, who sit on high in ethereal realmes, raining down such arcana from planes beyond our own: platonically perfect spellings of word-essences truer than our minds can comprehend. May we someday learn these things. May we someday write: "Web site".
In cycle 6 of America’s Next Top Model ('06), one contestant, Joanie, opts to have four teeth removed. That was all I could think about reading the new translation of Moshtari Hilal's "Ugliness", releasing this Feb.
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December 13, 2024 at 4:29 PM
In cycle 6 of America’s Next Top Model ('06), one contestant, Joanie, opts to have four teeth removed. That was all I could think about reading the new translation of Moshtari Hilal's "Ugliness", releasing this Feb.
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Finished the Ring trilogy this weekend--it didn't disappoint.
1. Ring: Spooky, fun, a bit too much 'deduction' for its own good
2. Spiral: Spookier, funner, maybe my fav of the three
3. Loop: What? fun, What? again, What? one more time, fun, but What?
6/10 would recommend, and all hail Chip Kidd.
1. Ring: Spooky, fun, a bit too much 'deduction' for its own good
2. Spiral: Spookier, funner, maybe my fav of the three
3. Loop: What? fun, What? again, What? one more time, fun, but What?
6/10 would recommend, and all hail Chip Kidd.
December 3, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Finished the Ring trilogy this weekend--it didn't disappoint.
1. Ring: Spooky, fun, a bit too much 'deduction' for its own good
2. Spiral: Spookier, funner, maybe my fav of the three
3. Loop: What? fun, What? again, What? one more time, fun, but What?
6/10 would recommend, and all hail Chip Kidd.
1. Ring: Spooky, fun, a bit too much 'deduction' for its own good
2. Spiral: Spookier, funner, maybe my fav of the three
3. Loop: What? fun, What? again, What? one more time, fun, but What?
6/10 would recommend, and all hail Chip Kidd.