Ben Masters is the author of a novel, Noughties (Hamish Hamilton, 2012), and a book of literary criticism, Novel Style (Oxford University Press, 2017). He teaches literature at the University of Nottingham, specialising in modern and contemporary literature. His literary journalism has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Guardian, New York Times, Literary Review and Five Dials. He lives in Northamptonshire. Granta Books and Tin House will publish his next book, The Flitting.
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