Ben Lerner has a story [subscription required] in this week’s New Yorker that, like his debut novel Leaving the Atocha Station, features a protagonist named The Author. The magazine interviewed Lerner about the invitation to blur his fiction with his autobiography. He says that his work in an exercise in “activating those questions in peculiar ways—but the questions, not the answers, are what strike me as interesting.”
Curiosities
“I don’t believe the reader needs to know anything about me.”
By Emily M. Keeler posted at 2:00 pm on June 14, 2012 1
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at 11:47 am on June 15, 2012
Note: protagonist of Ben Lerner’s novel is “Adam Gordon,” not “The Author.”