Tag: Ben Lerner
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Tropical Modernism
At 7:12 p.m. on a Saturday we convened at AJ’s apartment in Boerum Hill, a neighborhood long home to literary figures like “that one character from 10:04” and maybe Jonathan Safran Foer. I had come straight in a Juno from La Guardia off a Cape Air flight, just hours after meeting in Cambridge with K.…
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New Fiction is Psychic Occupation
“How then, she had asked herself, did one know one thing or another about people, sealed as they were?” (Woolf, To the Lighthouse) Fiction—or more generally, longform narrative text—has long been the handyman of culture, serving whatever functions are needed at a historical moment. The Greek oral tradition, famously, functioned in part to preserve cultural…
Suspended Reason 