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Transcription: A Novel

By Ben Lerner
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Tasked with interviewing his mentor without a recording device, the narrator of this Ben Lerner novel falls into a tender meditation on art, technology and what it really means to be alive.

Winner of the Orwell Prize

Named a Best Book of the Year (So Far) by The New York Times

From "the most talented writer of his generation" (Giles Harvey, The New York Times Magazine), a lightning flash of a novel that is at once a gripping emotional drama and a brilliant examination of the devices, digital and literary, we use to store-or to erase-our memories.

The narrator of Ben Lerner's new novel has traveled to Providence, Rhode Island, where he is to conduct what will be the final publish...

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