ken baumann on Vice

  • Suck on the Monolith

    Ken Baumann is best known for his role as Ben on ABC Family’s teen drama show, 'The Secret Life of the American Teenager,' but offscreen he’s of a wholly other mode. Besides spending his TV dollars as publisher of Sator Press, an independent publishing house that traffics in ambitious genre-defying prose, he’s just dropped his own brainbending first novel, 'Solip,' from Tyrant Books. Full story

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  • My Days of Bibliomancy with Virgil's 'Aeneid'

    I first read about sortes virgilianae in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's book, 'Antifragile.' He described the heuristic technique and said it was a little trick he used when faced with a big business decision. The gist of it is this: Open Virgil's 'Aeneid,' pick a random line, interpret… Full story

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