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Ben Ryder Howe

Biography

Ben Ryder Howe

Ben Ryder Howe has written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and Outside, and his work has been selected for Best American Travel Writing. He is a former senior editor of The Paris Review. He, his wife, and their two children live on Staten Island. He is the author of MY KOREAN DELI: Risking It All for a Convenience Store.

Ben Ryder Howe

Books by Ben Ryder Howe

My Korean Deli: Risking It All for a Convenience Store
by Ben Ryder Howe - Nonfiction

Ben Ryder Howe's wife, the daughter of Korean immigrants, decides to repay her parents' self-sacrifice by buying them a store. Howe, an editor at the rarefied Paris Review, agrees to go along. After the business struggles, Howe finds himself living in the basement of his in-laws' Staten Island home, commuting to the Paris Review offices in George Plimpton's Upper East Side townhouse by day, and heading to Brooklyn at night to slice cold cuts and peddle lottery tickets.