Jason Bentsman is a writer, philosopher, poet, and occasional humorist. He was born in Minsk, Belarus (formerly the USSR), grew up in the US, and has spent quite some time sojourning abroad.

He is in the process of completing a darkly comic novel: a paean to Cinema and existential exploration.

His prior book is The Orgastic Future, a work of poetic nonfiction about the interconnectedness and depths of consumerism, plastic pollution, climate change, plague, runaway ego, and other threats facing the planet, described as “A 21st century HOWL” (A.S., New Yorker & Vanity Fair), “Visionary, must-read” (Mercurius Magazine), “A visionary work… something out of its own time,” “An urgent read for every person living on the planet,” and “A poetic companion piece to Elizabeth Kolbert’s The Sixth Extinction.”

He runs the literary and humanities website For What It’s Worth, where he publishes quality works by diverse writers, artists, and thinkers.

Jason started writing at a young age, essentially as soon as he could hold a writing implement.

He is also currently in the latter stages of a novel cycle about impermanence, contemporaneity, love, and sex. Other works on the backburner, in partial stages of completion, include two novellas, a three-part travelogue, a philosophical tome about evolution and the nature of consciousness, a few plays, a handful of stories, sporadic poetry, and sundries… He is also sitting on a small trove of previously unpublished works, which he hopes eventually will see the light of day.

Through infrequent but valiant efforts, to date some of his writings have appeared in a sprinkling of literary publications worldwide, including Litro Magazine UK, Mercurius, the Offing, Tiny Molecules, HAD, The American Bystander, Paris Lit Up, The Blue Nib (Ireland), Tistelblomma (Sweden), Unvael Journal, Dreich (Scotland), Montreal Writes, EgoPhobia (Romania), The Real Us, Metamorphoses, FLANEUR, Hirschworth, FIRE (Oxford), Slackjaw, The Weekly Humorist, Two Fifty One, The Satirist, Greener Pastures, Antipodean Sci-Fi, and others.

Nowadays the state of literature is such that few seem to have heard of most such publications, and fewer read them, even the publishees themselves. He reserves hope that someday some will appear in the few well-known though inattentively read ones still left.

Jason has also been taking fine art photos for years, both analog and digital, and started sharing them fairly recently. Some have appeared in LensCulture Online, Feature Shoot, F-Stop Magazine, The Brooklyn Review, The Montreal Review, The Cardiff Review, The Amsterdam Quarterly, The Ilanot Review, The Museum of Americana, and the Ello homepage.

For a more interesting and humorous bio, see here. A list of his, err, favorite books is here. And a list of his (actual) favorite films here.