Dear Ben Greenman, About Your New Book...

Dear Art Beat Reader, "What He's Poised To Do" is a new story collection by New Yorker editor [Ben Greenman](http://www.bengreenman.com/). His stories are about letters -- his prose often written as a letter -- and explore the timeless human struggle of trying to connect to other people. Greenman's fascination with correspondence inspired his companion website [Letters with Character](http://letterswithcharacter.blogspot.com/), a home for "letters written to fictional characters by actual people." Other works by Greenman include the novel "Please Step Back" and the collections "Superbad," "Superworse" and "A Circle Is a Balloon and Compass Both: Stories About Human Love." Read our interview conducted via letters (and one postcard), below. Our letters were composed -- by typewriter and hand -- then scanned and emailed to each other. As Greenman wrote after the first exchange, it was as if "we invented a new kind of correspondence -- letters aided by email, instead of letters obliterated by email." In our case, we were aided dramatically; Ben's first letter actually got lost in the mail.
Yours sincerely, Zoe Pollock