Author: Kiki Benzon

Kiki Benzon is an assistant professor in English and a student in neuroscience at the University of Lethbridge, Canada. She edits the Fictions Present thread at ebr and has published essays on mental health, new media, and contemporary literature. Her review, "Mister Squishy, c'est moi: David Foster Wallace's Oblivion," is posted on ebr's Critical Ecologies thread.

EBR Threads currently edited by Kiki Benzon

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Essays in EBR by Kiki Benzon

2004-10-18

Mister Squishy, c'est moi: David Foster Wallace's Oblivion

Kiki Benzon on narrative ecology and the "fradulence paradox" of Oblivion.

Kiki Benzon
2007-03-20

Revolution 2: An Interview with Mark Z. Danielewski

Kiki Benzon and Mark Z. Danielewski discuss his 2006 book Only Revolutions at the International Festival of Authors in Toronto.

Kiki Benzon
2010-12-30

The Binding Problem

Minds bind - make coherent meaning from distributed processes - and narratives do, too.
The means by which they do so remains a mystery, however. Kiki Benzon suggests that this mystery is at the heart of Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves, a text whose layered structure, typographical blending, and central metaphor - a house much bigger than the sum of its parts - enact the problem of binding on multiple levels.

Kiki Benzon