June 19, 2026 at 3:00 AM
It's here! Little retirement gift to myself 😍 @biggreenbooks.bsky.social #BenLerner
April 24, 2026 at 8:34 AM
It's here! Little retirement gift to myself 😍 @biggreenbooks.bsky.social #BenLerner
📚💙 Transcription by Ben Lerner: book review #booksky #bookreviews #tbr #bookrecs #BenLerner #mustread
“Nothing in this exquisite, shape-shifting novel is quite what it seems—words least of all.” Giles Harvey reviews Ben Lerner’s new book, “Transcription.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Ample Rewards of Ben Lerner’s Slender New Novel
In “Transcription,” a novel about memory and influence, an interview with an aging intellectual goes unrecorded. Or does it?
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April 7, 2026 at 1:06 PM
📚💙 Transcription by Ben Lerner: book review #booksky #bookreviews #tbr #bookrecs #BenLerner #mustread
perfect timing, his new novel is coming out and I was just in madrid, spain, reading his first novel.
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April 26, 2026 at 2:09 PM
perfect timing, his new novel is coming out and I was just in madrid, spain, reading his first novel.
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April 5, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Roof reading #benlerner #booksky the Topeka school
July 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Roof reading #benlerner #booksky the Topeka school
"I felt that my dad was already dead, that he wasn't suffering, and that his death, instead of severing our connection, had opened this channel between us, if that makes sense." My #SundaySentence is by Ben Lerner from his phenomenal novella Transcription. #Booksky #BenLerner
April 26, 2026 at 3:39 PM
"I felt that my dad was already dead, that he wasn't suffering, and that his death, instead of severing our connection, had opened this channel between us, if that makes sense." My #SundaySentence is by Ben Lerner from his phenomenal novella Transcription. #Booksky #BenLerner
By turns wry and thought-provoking, themed around paternal relationships, this is a story of how memories transform — both themselves and the people carrying them — and of how much modern society relies on technology to capture, even validate, its human experiences.
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#Transcription
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#Transcription
May 10, 2026 at 6:45 PM
By turns wry and thought-provoking, themed around paternal relationships, this is a story of how memories transform — both themselves and the people carrying them — and of how much modern society relies on technology to capture, even validate, its human experiences.
#BenLerner
#Transcription
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#LeavingtheAtochaStation
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My work,said the second smoker,was much more reminiscent of another poet,whose name l'd never heard, who fled Franco and died in exile,a poet whose capacity to dwell among contradictions without any violent will to resolution formally modeled utopian possibility.
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My work,said the second smoker,was much more reminiscent of another poet,whose name l'd never heard, who fled Franco and died in exile,a poet whose capacity to dwell among contradictions without any violent will to resolution formally modeled utopian possibility.
September 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
#LeavingtheAtochaStation
#BenLerner
My work,said the second smoker,was much more reminiscent of another poet,whose name l'd never heard, who fled Franco and died in exile,a poet whose capacity to dwell among contradictions without any violent will to resolution formally modeled utopian possibility.
#BenLerner
My work,said the second smoker,was much more reminiscent of another poet,whose name l'd never heard, who fled Franco and died in exile,a poet whose capacity to dwell among contradictions without any violent will to resolution formally modeled utopian possibility.
#Transcription
#BenLerner
My seat was facing opposite the direction of travel…I took a photo of the wintry, postindustrial landscape through my masked reflection as the train picked up speed, and then I checked and deleted the photo and shut my eyes and faced the past.
#BenLerner
My seat was facing opposite the direction of travel…I took a photo of the wintry, postindustrial landscape through my masked reflection as the train picked up speed, and then I checked and deleted the photo and shut my eyes and faced the past.
May 10, 2026 at 11:50 AM
#Transcription
#BenLerner
My seat was facing opposite the direction of travel…I took a photo of the wintry, postindustrial landscape through my masked reflection as the train picked up speed, and then I checked and deleted the photo and shut my eyes and faced the past.
#BenLerner
My seat was facing opposite the direction of travel…I took a photo of the wintry, postindustrial landscape through my masked reflection as the train picked up speed, and then I checked and deleted the photo and shut my eyes and faced the past.
Leaving Ben Lerner's 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 off the Booker Long List has done every book on it an immense disservice. Because I can't be the only one comparing what they are reading to one of the best books of the decade, and some of them are coming up short. #BookerPrize #BenLerner #Transcriptions #booksky
August 7, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Leaving Ben Lerner's 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 off the Booker Long List has done every book on it an immense disservice. Because I can't be the only one comparing what they are reading to one of the best books of the decade, and some of them are coming up short. #BookerPrize #BenLerner #Transcriptions #booksky
Finished #LeavingtheAtochaStation
#BenLerner
I was destined to reproduce the bourgeois family…Or was…the lie… the identity of an addict…had the effort to prolong my adolescent experimentation indefinitely shaded imperceptibly into fearsome if mundane dependence, had mythomania become methomania?
#BenLerner
I was destined to reproduce the bourgeois family…Or was…the lie… the identity of an addict…had the effort to prolong my adolescent experimentation indefinitely shaded imperceptibly into fearsome if mundane dependence, had mythomania become methomania?
September 25, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Finished #LeavingtheAtochaStation
#BenLerner
I was destined to reproduce the bourgeois family…Or was…the lie… the identity of an addict…had the effort to prolong my adolescent experimentation indefinitely shaded imperceptibly into fearsome if mundane dependence, had mythomania become methomania?
#BenLerner
I was destined to reproduce the bourgeois family…Or was…the lie… the identity of an addict…had the effort to prolong my adolescent experimentation indefinitely shaded imperceptibly into fearsome if mundane dependence, had mythomania become methomania?
Currently making my way through The Topeka School by Ben Lerner. It’s a bit of a slog at times, but there’s something intriguing about its writing style, debate, and cultural critique. Not the easiest read, but I’m sticking with it.
#NowReading #BookSky #LitFic #BenLerner #TheTopekaSchool
#NowReading #BookSky #LitFic #BenLerner #TheTopekaSchool
March 6, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Currently making my way through The Topeka School by Ben Lerner. It’s a bit of a slog at times, but there’s something intriguing about its writing style, debate, and cultural critique. Not the easiest read, but I’m sticking with it.
#NowReading #BookSky #LitFic #BenLerner #TheTopekaSchool
#NowReading #BookSky #LitFic #BenLerner #TheTopekaSchool
#Transcription by #BenLerner wins #OrwellPprize for political #fiction
Judging chair calls Lerner’s novel a ‘funny, brainy and timely’ study of our appetite for technology, while #KarenBartlett wins the #nonfiction prize for #TheEscapeFromKabul
#Books
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
Judging chair calls Lerner’s novel a ‘funny, brainy and timely’ study of our appetite for technology, while #KarenBartlett wins the #nonfiction prize for #TheEscapeFromKabul
#Books
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
Transcription by Ben Lerner wins Orwell prize for political fiction
Judging chair calls Lerner’s novel a ‘funny, brainy and timely’ study of our appetite for technology, while Karen Bartlett wins the nonfiction prize for The Escape from Kabul
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June 25, 2026 at 10:55 PM
#Transcription by #BenLerner wins #OrwellPprize for political #fiction
Judging chair calls Lerner’s novel a ‘funny, brainy and timely’ study of our appetite for technology, while #KarenBartlett wins the #nonfiction prize for #TheEscapeFromKabul
#Books
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
Judging chair calls Lerner’s novel a ‘funny, brainy and timely’ study of our appetite for technology, while #KarenBartlett wins the #nonfiction prize for #TheEscapeFromKabul
#Books
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
"TRANSCRIPTION succeeds because it dares, within notably narrow confines, to go places typically reserved for much longer novels, if not other, more abstract art forms entirely."
Eric Bies reviews Ben Lerner's new novel (@fsgbooks.bsky.social). #benlerner
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Eric Bies reviews Ben Lerner's new novel (@fsgbooks.bsky.social). #benlerner
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Transcription by Ben Lerner
Reviewed by Eric Bies
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May 4, 2026 at 9:50 PM
"TRANSCRIPTION succeeds because it dares, within notably narrow confines, to go places typically reserved for much longer novels, if not other, more abstract art forms entirely."
Eric Bies reviews Ben Lerner's new novel (@fsgbooks.bsky.social). #benlerner
ocreviewofbooks.org/2026/05/04/t...
Eric Bies reviews Ben Lerner's new novel (@fsgbooks.bsky.social). #benlerner
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Ben Lerner grows up—or at least hardens.
In Transcription, Lerner moves to something more grounded, more cutting. @fsgbooks.bsky.social #Books #BenLerner #LiteraryFiction #BookReview #AmReading
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In Transcription, Lerner moves to something more grounded, more cutting. @fsgbooks.bsky.social #Books #BenLerner #LiteraryFiction #BookReview #AmReading
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In 'Transcription,' Ben Lerner Breaks the Spell of His Mother's Voice - Book and Film Globe
Anyone lucky enough to have read Ben Lerner’s explosive trilogy of first-person novels that straddle the border between fiction and memoir might get the
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April 7, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Ben Lerner grows up—or at least hardens.
In Transcription, Lerner moves to something more grounded, more cutting. @fsgbooks.bsky.social #Books #BenLerner #LiteraryFiction #BookReview #AmReading
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In Transcription, Lerner moves to something more grounded, more cutting. @fsgbooks.bsky.social #Books #BenLerner #LiteraryFiction #BookReview #AmReading
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Today in Bookish and Literary History, October 1
#OnThisDay #ThisDayinHistory #OTD #October1 #releaseday #bookbirthday #newrelease #DanielDefoe #LouisaMayAlcott #WoleSoyinka #AngelaCarter #DanielleSteel #KristinHannah #JingzhiZou #DavidMitchell #JamesBaldwin #SamantaSchweblin #BenLerner #booksky
#OnThisDay #ThisDayinHistory #OTD #October1 #releaseday #bookbirthday #newrelease #DanielDefoe #LouisaMayAlcott #WoleSoyinka #AngelaCarter #DanielleSteel #KristinHannah #JingzhiZou #DavidMitchell #JamesBaldwin #SamantaSchweblin #BenLerner #booksky
October 1, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Today in Bookish and Literary History, October 1
#OnThisDay #ThisDayinHistory #OTD #October1 #releaseday #bookbirthday #newrelease #DanielDefoe #LouisaMayAlcott #WoleSoyinka #AngelaCarter #DanielleSteel #KristinHannah #JingzhiZou #DavidMitchell #JamesBaldwin #SamantaSchweblin #BenLerner #booksky
#OnThisDay #ThisDayinHistory #OTD #October1 #releaseday #bookbirthday #newrelease #DanielDefoe #LouisaMayAlcott #WoleSoyinka #AngelaCarter #DanielleSteel #KristinHannah #JingzhiZou #DavidMitchell #JamesBaldwin #SamantaSchweblin #BenLerner #booksky
Not sure if it's a good idea to be reading 3 books at the same time but that's what's happening.
#CurrentlyReading #BenLerner #TheWestWing #AaronSorkin #Writing
#CurrentlyReading #BenLerner #TheWestWing #AaronSorkin #Writing
August 30, 2024 at 8:42 PM
Not sure if it's a good idea to be reading 3 books at the same time but that's what's happening.
#CurrentlyReading #BenLerner #TheWestWing #AaronSorkin #Writing
#CurrentlyReading #BenLerner #TheWestWing #AaronSorkin #Writing
Some pairing these are making, the masculine violence study, which I didn’t expect, in Topeka and its scathing critique, which totally checks out, from Woolf. Both are brilliant btw. #booksky #virginiawoolf #benlerner
August 8, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Some pairing these are making, the masculine violence study, which I didn’t expect, in Topeka and its scathing critique, which totally checks out, from Woolf. Both are brilliant btw. #booksky #virginiawoolf #benlerner
Finished #Transcription
#BenLerner
“He did, my father, have beautiful eyes…Their far look when he was calculating, when he lifts his eyes from the paper: f is the force, p the density of water, g is the acceleration due to gravity…He would be calculating what they could withstand, his dams.”
#BenLerner
“He did, my father, have beautiful eyes…Their far look when he was calculating, when he lifts his eyes from the paper: f is the force, p the density of water, g is the acceleration due to gravity…He would be calculating what they could withstand, his dams.”
July 4, 2026 at 10:20 AM
Finished #Transcription
#BenLerner
“He did, my father, have beautiful eyes…Their far look when he was calculating, when he lifts his eyes from the paper: f is the force, p the density of water, g is the acceleration due to gravity…He would be calculating what they could withstand, his dams.”
#BenLerner
“He did, my father, have beautiful eyes…Their far look when he was calculating, when he lifts his eyes from the paper: f is the force, p the density of water, g is the acceleration due to gravity…He would be calculating what they could withstand, his dams.”
SOME SUMMER BOOKS
Ben Lerner / Alexander Kluge:
The Snows of Venice
Schnee über Venedig
#alexanderkluge #benlerner
#spectorbooks #somesummerbooks
Ben Lerner / Alexander Kluge:
The Snows of Venice
Schnee über Venedig
#alexanderkluge #benlerner
#spectorbooks #somesummerbooks
July 1, 2025 at 10:04 AM
SOME SUMMER BOOKS
Ben Lerner / Alexander Kluge:
The Snows of Venice
Schnee über Venedig
#alexanderkluge #benlerner
#spectorbooks #somesummerbooks
Ben Lerner / Alexander Kluge:
The Snows of Venice
Schnee über Venedig
#alexanderkluge #benlerner
#spectorbooks #somesummerbooks
#topekaschool So much to digest. What a writer though #benlerner. The Jane subplot was really engaging and alive. I was scared of what was going to become of Darren. Still thinking about this one a few days after finishing. #thanksobama
March 21, 2025 at 12:51 AM
#topekaschool So much to digest. What a writer though #benlerner. The Jane subplot was really engaging and alive. I was scared of what was going to become of Darren. Still thinking about this one a few days after finishing. #thanksobama