Ben Sandman

Ben Sandman’s fiction has been published in Story, Joyland, Stirring, and Stone Canoe, among others, and his criticism has appeared in The New Republic, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere.

An episode of “Shark Tank,” 2015.

Is Pitching a Novel All That Different From “Shark Tank”?  Is Pitching a Novel All That Different From “Shark Tank”? 

Alex Higley’s True Failure, which dramatizes one man’s dream to pitch his business idea on reality TV, slyly compares this bathetic task to publishing literary fiction.

Jul 29, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Ben Sandman

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