As the country shelters in place during the COVID-19 crisis, the Los Angeles Times unveiled the winners of its 40th Annual Book Prizes on Twitter this morning, among them Marlon James, Ilya Kaminsky, and Ben Lerner. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-04-17 04:00:00 UTC ]
Zadie Smith and Ben Lerner are among the eight authors shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2020. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-02-25 23:52:49 UTC ]
AN ADOLESCENT NAMED Adam Gordon is the protagonist of Ben Lerner’s new novel, The Topeka School. He shares this name with the narrator of Leaving the Atocha Station, Lerner’s debut novel from 2011. Leaving the Atocha Station was about the quarter-life crisis of a talented misanthrope;... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-10-09 12:30:44 UTC ]
Topeka, Kans., the city in which Ben Lerner was raised, appears at some point in all his books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-05-30 04:00:00 UTC ]
A first novel with glowing endorsements from such literary lights as Jonathan Franzen, Paul Auster, Geoff Dyer, and John Ashbery—what more could a young writer want? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
The editorial directorship at Coffee House Press may have changed hands only six months ago, passing from its founding publisher, Allan Kornblum, to longtime editor Chris Fischbach in July, but the 27-year-old Minneapolis literary nonprofit press certainly hasn’t lost any momentum during the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]