Benjamin Fogel was born in 1981 in the Paris suburbs. He is the founder of Playlist Society, a publisher of essays on pop culture (cinema, music, literature…) In 2015, he published his first novel with Le mot et le reste: Le Renoncement de Howard Devoto, a fictionalized biography of the leader of Buzzcocks and Magazine, through which he traces the history of English punk. In 2016, he continued this work with Swans et le dépassement de soi, an essay on Michael Gira, an iconoclastic figure in contemporary music. His first real work of fiction will be published in 2019 by Rivages in the Rivages/Noir collection: La Transparence selon Irina (Prix Rivages des libraires 2021), a novel of social and political anticipation, which initiates the Trilogie de la transparence. This will continue in 2021 with Le Silence selon Manon, dedicated to toxic masculinity, then in 2024 with L’Absence selon Camille, the story of a failed revolution. In 2021, he was one of the writers of the new version of Métal hurlant magazine.
