I don't think "I'm going to publish this as fiction" but I think "I'm going to tell this story to a friend" and then I start telling the story in my mind as the experience transpires as a way of pretending it's already happened.
I’ll work my way from irony to sincerity in the sinking city, a would-be Whitman of the vulnerable grid. - Ben Lerner
I’ll work my way from irony to sincerity in the sinking city, a would-be Whitman of the vulnerable grid.
- Ben Lerner
Every relationship can feel saturated by market logic or at best purchased at the price of the immiseration of others. - Ben Lerner
Every relationship can feel saturated by market logic or at best purchased at the price of the immiseration of others.
I came to realize that far more important to me than any plot or conventional sense was the sheer directionality I felt while reading prose, the text… - Ben Lerner
I came to realize that far more important to me than any plot or conventional sense was the sheer directionality I felt while reading prose, the text…
I wasn't aware I'd write the novel when I wrote the New Yorker story either. And the narration of their construction in 10:04 is fiction, however fli… - Ben Lerner
I wasn't aware I'd write the novel when I wrote the New Yorker story either. And the narration of their construction in 10:04 is fiction, however fli…
What interests me about fiction is, in part, its flickering edge between realism and where a tear in the fabric of a story lets in some other sort of… - Ben Lerner
What interests me about fiction is, in part, its flickering edge between realism and where a tear in the fabric of a story lets in some other sort of…
I don't want to write poems that are just really clear about how I'm aware of all the traps involved in writing poetry; I don't want to write fiction… - Ben Lerner
I don't want to write poems that are just really clear about how I'm aware of all the traps involved in writing poetry; I don't want to write fiction…
Shaving is a way to start the workday by ritually not cutting your throat when you've the chance. - Ben Lerner
Shaving is a way to start the workday by ritually not cutting your throat when you've the chance.
The problem is that if you're self-conscious about being a person on whom nothing is lost, isn't something lost - some kind of presence? You're distr… - Ben Lerner
The problem is that if you're self-conscious about being a person on whom nothing is lost, isn't something lost - some kind of presence? You're distr…
Many of the left thinkers that really matter to me - that formed a big part of my thinking about politics and art - emphasize how capitalism is a tot… - Ben Lerner
Many of the left thinkers that really matter to me - that formed a big part of my thinking about politics and art - emphasize how capitalism is a tot…
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