Ben Cunningham
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WRITING



LITCHARTS GUIDES

Kim - Literature Guide, 2024
A literature guide on Kim by Rudyard Kipling.

Kokoro - Literature Guide, 2024
A literature guide on Kokoro by Natsume Soseki. 

2001: A Space Odyssey - Literature Guide, 2024
A literature guide on 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

Little Britches - Literature Guide, 2024
A literature guide on Little Britches by Moody. 

Piranesi - Literature Guide, 2024
A literature guide on Piranesi by Susanna Clarke.

Boy Overboard – Literature Guide, 2023
A literature guide on the children’s novel, Boy Overboard, by Morris Gleissman.

The Bad Beginning – Literature Guide, 2023
A literature guide on the children’s novel, The Bad Beginning, by Lemony Snicket.

The Praise of Folly – Literature Guide, 2023 A literature guide on the famous philosphical work, The Praise of Folly, by rennaissance scholar, Desiderius Erasmus. 

After Twenty Years –  Literature Guide, 2023
A literature guide on the short story, After Twenty Years, by O. Henry.

How It Happened –  Literature Guide, 2023
A literature guide on the short story, How It Happened, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

AWARD-WINNING WRITING

Leon Blum and the Question of Intervention, Research Essay - 2018Research essay on Leon Blum and the Spanish Civil War; published in the Concord Review, and awarded the 2018 Emerson Prize

I Can't Keep My Eyes Off of You, Academic Essay - 2021Winner of the 1st Place Preston Gurney Prize in Cultural Criticism, written about the ontology of image in American in Paris.

The Space Between, Academic Essay - 2021Winner of the 1st Place Preston Gurney Prize in Literary Criticism; written on Coleridge’s poem, Christabel.

MUSIC EDITORIAL

An Interview with Genessa Gariano, Interview  – 2022 (Pending Publication) An audio and writtten interview with the co-lead guitartist and songwriter from the punk-rock band, the Regrettes. 

The Wall That Wasn’t Flat, Feature – 2021 An analytical opinions piece on Phil Spector and the loudness wars of the 90s. Written for WBRU. 

CREATIVE WRITING

BLUEY+GOGO: Parts 1-8, Prose Series - 2022 Experimental prose series following two eternal characters.

A Geranium And a Dead Man, Prose Poem - 2022

Goldilocks Makes A Whoopsie, Short Story - 2021Short story which parodies Goldilocks becoming conscious of, and subsquently, overthrowing her narrator.

Seven Spillings, Poem - 2021 

Two Sides of a Leaf, Prose Poem - 2021

Trad’s Tale, Experimental Script & Play- 2019Experimental script/play modeled after Ulysses’ 15th chapter Cyclops and Duck Amuck.