{"id":1414,"date":"2026-06-04T19:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T16:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=1414"},"modified":"2026-06-04T19:51:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T16:51:00","slug":"ben-pesters-short-stories-explore-the-idea-of-being-left-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=1414","title":{"rendered":"Ben Pester\u2019s Short Stories Explore the Idea of Being Left Behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/design-living\/17224\/ben-pester-interview-sail-away-land?utm_source=Linkamp;utm_medium=Linkamp;utm_campaign=RSSFeedamp;utm_term=ben-pester-s-short-stories-explore-the-idea-of-being-left-behind\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/667\/azure\/another-prod\/470\/3\/473927.jpg\" alt=\"Ben Pester Sail Away Land\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Following up the success of last summer\u2019s The Expansion Project, <\/span><strong>Ben Pester<\/strong><span>\u2019s short story collection <\/span><strong>Sail Away Land <\/strong><span>retains some of its nightmarish corporate paranoia. The first and last stories of the collection \u2013 Around the Time of My Promotion and Exit Interview for a Valued Colleague, respectively \u2013 are tinged with it, exploring the unfurling psyche of its characters through the setting of workhellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/design-living\/17224\/ben-pester-interview-sail-away-land?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=ben-pester-s-short-stories-explore-the-idea-of-being-left-behind\">read more raquo;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up the success of last summer\u2019s The Expansion Project, Ben Pester\u2019s short story collection Sail Away Land retains some of its nightmarish corporate paranoia. The first and last stories of the collection \u2013 Around the Time of My Promotion&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}