Ben Lerner’s Tale of Three Hotels Is a Lyrical Novel of Loss and Human Potential

Ben Lerner’s tale of three hotels is a lyrical novel of loss and human potential

Transcription By Ben Lerner Farrar, Straus and Giroux. $25, 144 pages As we scroll through the final portion of human history before it gets permanently revised by AI, Ben Lerner has written a lyrical novel of loss. This three-part novel from the author of Leaving the Atocha Station, 10:04, and the Pulitzer finalist The Topeka School, presents loss in many forms: loss of recognition which leads to a confusion of identities; loss of memory which …

Ben Lerner’s Transcription Is a Brilliant Meditation on Tech

Transcription, Ben Lerner’s slim but layered new novel, is a penetrating meditation on fraudulence, fatherhood, and the fate of authentic experience in our digital age.

Ben Lerner’s Transcription and the Literary Readymade

Gemma Sieff reviews Ben Lerner’s Transcription, where broken recordings, glass flowers, and shifting perception blur fiction and reality.

Transcription by Ben Lerner

I’ve been hearing nothing but good things about Ben Lerner’s new novel Transcription (Amazon) which comes out tomorrow. From the book’s description: What unfolds from this dreamlike circumstance is the unforgettable story of the triangle formed by Thomas, Max, and the narrator, and an exploration of fathers and sons, male friendship and rivalry, and the challenges of parenting in a burning world. One of the first great novels about the early day…

Book review of Transcription by Ben Lerner

The exchanges of the astute characters of Transcription allow us to reflect on parental relationships, mentorship and whether the privilege we accord recorded recollections is truly deserved.