Your interviews or blog posts or whatever are less supplements to your novel than part of it. I'm not private, but I believe in literary form - I'll use my life as material for art (I don't know how not to do this) and I'll use art as a way of exploring that passage of life into art and vice versa, but that's not the same thing as thinking that any of the details of my life are interesting or relevant on their own.
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
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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