Benjamin Hale
Author and academic known for fiction and nonfiction; author of The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore, The Fat Artist and Other Stories, and Cave Mountain: A Disappearance and a Reckoning in the Ozarks, and a teacher at Bard College and Columbia.
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Feb 17, 2026 • 1h
How to memorialize the truth when it’s stranger than fiction with Benjamin Hale.
Benjamin Hale, novelist and Bard/Columbia teacher known for The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore and Cave Mountain, joins to recount a startling true story. He explores a child's disappearance, serendipitous reporting moments, and why some truths feel too strange for fiction. Conversation touches on investigative craft, linking past crimes to present reckonings, and the ethics of memorializing real lives.
