Where am I? — What is this? — Where’s the nearest dry cleaner?
(1) For What It’s Worth is the literary / humanities site of Jason Bentsman & Friends, featuring quality writings and media.
The site started off as a way for the author to share some of their works that wouldn’t necessarily see the light of day soon, as well as personal, topical, and humorous writings and inspirations.
Over time, its emphasis has shifted to predominately publishing quality works by diverse writers, artists, and thinkers.
Some include poets John Guzlowski (“astonishing… an enormous ability for grasping reality,” Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz), famed Beat veteran Andy Clausen (“A reading interest rare in poetry of any generation,” Allen Ginsberg), Marianne Lorthiois, and Werda Shermeen Zia. Literary and nonfiction writers Robert Leonard Reid (“Writing extraordinarily fine,” Lewis H. Lapham of Lapham’s Quarterly), Costas Despiniadis, and Jared Daniel. Musicians Stefan Zeniuk (“Exotic and simultaneously urban,” Le Monde, Paris), Gato Loco, and sitarist Anand Vyas. Philosopher Michel Meurisse. The unknown, extraordinary polymath-metaphysician Andrey Zimin. And others.
(2) FWIW‘s purpose is to provide readers with entertaining, illuminating, edifying writings and other media by gifted Contributors: prose, poetry, philosophy, psychology, humor, dreams, and occasionally interviews, cartoons, photography, rare songs, videos, culture jamming, and other items of the literary, philosophical, and artistic persuasions . . . A mélange of the lofty and the slapstick, it is especially fitting for those who relish variety, and probably has a little something for almost anyone.
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The site has associated Facebook and other social media pages where I—and occasionally a few choice contributors—would post something worthwhile whenever the mood struck (illuminating, informative, poetic, comic, tragic, usefully irreverent, captivatingly absurd). . . However, more recently I’ve stopped using social media. I’ve explained my reasonings for doing so in this Essay in the publication Illumination. Hopefully a thoughtful and revealing read. Let me know your impressions. Any case, the now little-used social media pages are here:
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(3) Submissions Contributors’ items appear in the Writings & Works of Others section. Currently these are by talented writer and artist friends and acquaintances. In the future, I might open up the site to submissions. If you wish to submit, for the time being, please do so through our affiliate The Journal of Universal Rejection (which, let’s be honest, is how most contemporary literary publications will treat your submission anyway).
(4) More (Original Manifest) Hello. My name is Jason Bentsman. I’m a writer of prose, poetry, and philosophy. I will be using this space to publish memorable miscellaneous writings, with an emphasis on works that wouldn’t necessarily see the light of day—either because they don’t fit neatly into any category; are personal, such as pieces from journals and correspondences; or stand little chance of being published in the current zeitgeist—as well as any other subject matter that captures my imagination. Please note that some of the entries, while making their public debut, are not necessarily ‘new,’ having been culled from former writings. I will also be publishing parts or the entirety of select longer works in progress. And, as explained above, the site will also regularly publish high quality writings and other media by Contributors. Herein I hope you will find sincerity, truthful lies, enjoyment, edification—and maybe even a glimpse of the ineffable.
(5) The nearest dry cleaner is here:
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