10:04
by Ben Lerner · first published 2014
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A beautiful and utterly original novel about making art, love, and children during the twilight of an empire. Ben Lerner's first novel, Leaving the Atocha Station, was hailed as "one of the truest (and funniest) novels. of his generation" (Lorin Stein, The New York Review of Books), "a work so luminously original in style and form as to seem like a premonition, a comet from the future" (Geoff Dyer, The Observer). Now, his second novel departs from Leaving the Atocha Station's exquisite ironies in order to explore new territories of thought and feeling. In the last year, the narrator of
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…by Glyn Maxwell 41. 'Redeployment' by Phil Klay 42. 'Remember Me Like This' by Bret Anthony Johnston 43. 'A Replacement Life' by Boris Fishman 44. 'Song Of The Shank' by Jeffery Renard Allen 45. '10:04' by Ben Lerner 46. 'Thirty Girls' by Susan Minot 47. 'Those Who Leave And Those Who Stay: Book 3, The Neapolitan Novels: “middle Time.' by Elena Ferrante. Translated by Ann Goldstein 48. 'The Wallcreeper'…
on “Notable Books of 2014” ↗…of the more intensely second-person poems I've come across, with its repeated focus on the reader's presence and what the reader has in common with the poet. I learned about this poem from the novel 10:04 by Ben Lerner, in which it figures prominently. The novel is an interesting meditation on nostalgia, modernity, introspection, and being a writer (although I fear readers might like it much less if they…
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