BENJAMIN KESSLER | AUTHOR

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RELEASES MARCH 18, 2025

“Benjamin Kessler’s page-turning, dystopian-skyscraper novella is both appropriately psychedelic and surprisingly emotionally vulnerable. The imagery and unique dreamstate of The Pinnacle will linger with you long after you finish.”

—JOSHUA JAMES AMBERSON, author of STARING CONTEST and How to Forget Almost Everything

“Like the building at the center of this destabilizing and wonderfully odd tale, The Pinnacle is massive in scope and yet strangely tidy in its construction. Lyrical, curious, self-sabotaging—it’s his harrowing display of humanity that sets The Pinnacle in a class of its own.”

—MICHAEL HEALD, author of GOODBYE TO THE NERVOUS APPREHENSION

“This slim novella captures the dehumanization of American workers in late-stage capitalism in a way that is not only smart and entertaining, but gorgeously written and laugh-out-loud funny.”

—Gabriel Urza, author of SILVER STATE AND ALL THAT FOLLOWED

The Pinnacle is the second book from Benjamin Kessler, published by Portland’s own Buckman Publishing. It’s a great read if you like:

tall buildings

coin pushers
moonshine
labor
corporate surveillance
connecticut
inventions

daddy issues
the horrors of capitalism

and so much more!