Strange Hours: Photography, Memory, and the Lives of Artists

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Debut essay collection by a prolific, Pushcart Prizenominated writer and longtime contributor to Aperture, Paris Review, and Vogue

Bengals incisive writing on photography breathes new life into the work of a range of artists, from the iconic to the iconoclastic

Newest title in the recently relaunched and critically acclaimed Aperture Ideas series

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Rebecca Bengal is a writer of fiction, essays, and documentary journalism about art, literature, film, music, and the environment. A regular contributor to Aperture, her writing has been published by the Paris Review, Vogue, Vanity Fair, the New York Times, Oxford American, Southwest Review, the Believer, the Guardian, and the Criterion Collection, among many others. She has contributed stories and essays to books by Carolyn Drake, Justine Kurland, Kristine Potter, Paul Graham, Danny Lyon, and Charles Portis. A MacDowell fellow in fiction and a former editor at American Short Fiction, DoubleTake, and Vogue, she holds an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers in Austin. Originally from western North Carolina, Bengal lives in Brooklyn. Joy Williams (foreword) is the author of several collections of short stories and essays, and four novels, including The Quick and the Dead (2010) and Harrow (2021).