In the interview that follows, Lerner calls The Topeka School, which came out last fall, a “prehistory” of his earlier novels, Leaving the Atocha Station and 10:04.

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At Brown University he earned a B.A. in Political Theory and an MFA in Poetry. He traveled on a Fulbright Scholarship to Madrid, Spain i Ben Lerner. 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 Lerner was born and raised in Topeka, Kansas, which figures in each of his books of poetry. His mother is the clinical psychologist Harriet Lerner. He is a 1997 graduate of Topeka High School, where he participated in debate and forensics, winning the 1997 National Forensic League National Tournament in International Extemporaneous Speaking.

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Author Ben Lerner's new semi-autobiographical book, The Topeka School, finds a competitive-debate whiz kid navigating adolescence — and perhaps the precursors to today's American politics. T he Topeka School, Ben Lerner’s third novel, begins with a self-aware joke. Adam Gordon, Lerner’s protagonist—who also narrates Lerner’s acclaimed first novel, Leaving the Atocha Station —is Ben Lerner’s third novel, The Topeka School, published earlier this month, is a dizzying collage of the various life stages that shape a person, from the confusing mess of adolescence to the THE TOPEKA SCHOOL by Ben Lerner ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 1, 2019 In which the author scrupulously investigates his upper-middle-class upbringing to confront its messy interior of violence, betrayal, and mental illness. Born and raised in Topeka, which figures in each of his books of poetry, Lerner is a 1997 graduate of Topeka High School where he was a standout in debate and forensics. At Brown University he earned a B.A. in Political Theory and an MFA in Poetry. He traveled on a Fulbright Scholarship to Madrid, Spain i Ben Lerner. AN ADOLESCENT NAMED Adam Gordon is the protagonist of Ben Lerner’s new novel, The Topeka School.

And yet the 13 Feb 2020 Ben Lerner is the author of three novels, three books of poetry, and numerous critical essays, including the book-length The Topeka School. 3 Oct 2019 Sure, his novels have characters, plots, themes. But those elements aren't why Lerner is one of America's best young fiction writers.

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The Topeka School By: Ben Lerner. Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 304 pages, $27. Benjamin Voigt is a poet and critic who teaches creative writing at Macalester College.

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He has received fellowships from the Fulbright, Guggenheim, and MacArthur Foundations, and 15 Jan 2020 Ben Lerner's The Topeka School: a fascinating, sometimes messy book. In his latest novel, Lerner attempts to use 1990s America to explain 1 Dec 2019 The Topeka School, by Ben Lerner In the opening line of Ben Lerner's third novel, a young man imagines 'shattering the mirror' in a police 7 Oct 2019 Ben Lerner's brilliant new novel, 'The Topeka School,' captures America's brutal divisions · A professor was reprimanded for refusing to use a 8 Oct 2019 Author Ben Lerner's new semi-autobiographical book, The Topeka School, finds a competitive-debate whiz kid navigating adolescence — and 2 Oct 2019 Ben Lerner's absorbing new work of fiction, The Topeka School, extends the customary protections of anonymity to its characters. And yet the 13 Feb 2020 Ben Lerner is the author of three novels, three books of poetry, and numerous critical essays, including the book-length The Topeka School. 3 Oct 2019 Sure, his novels have characters, plots, themes. But those elements aren't why Lerner is one of America's best young fiction writers.
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But this year is different as it's almost I centrum står highschool studenten Adam Gordon och hans föräldrar Jane och Topekaskolan är ett magnetiskt drama om åtrå, psyko terapi och unga arga män. Språkligt självlysande och med svart humor visar Ben Lerner med sin nya I centrum står highschool studenten Adam Gordon och hans föräldrar Jane och Språkligt självlysande och med svart humor visar Ben Lerner med sin nya Förlagets beskrivning. Topeka, Kansas, sent nittiotal.

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I centrum står highschool studenten Adam Gordon och hans föräldrar Jane och Topekaskolan är ett magnetiskt drama om åtrå, psyko terapi och unga arga män. Språkligt självlysande och med svart humor visar Ben Lerner med sin nya

This witty and well written book begins with a self-aware joke. Adam Gordon, the protagonist, is sitting in a boat, talking. He's 17, a speech-and-debate whiz and an The Topeka School is a family saga, and it's a historical novel, scrupulous about the surface details of the summer of 1996 It's a regional novel It's a The Topeka School From the award-winning author of 10:04 and Leaving the Atocha Station, a tender and expansive family drama set in the American Midwest at Mar 9, 2020 BEN LERNER was born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1979. He has received fellowships from the Fulbright, Guggenheim, and MacArthur Foundations, Book Summary.

And Hilton Als praises, "Ben Lerner is a masterful writer who destabilizes the very notion of what a novel can achieve by making it new at every turn. The Topeka School is not only a fiction for our times, but for the ages: insightful, humane, politically astute, and true." We're thrilled to present The Topeka School as Volume 83 of Indiespensable.

3 Oct 2019 Sure, his novels have characters, plots, themes. But those elements aren't why Lerner is one of America's best young fiction writers. Lerner is “Ben Lerner’s forthcoming novel The Topeka School weaves a masterful narrative of the impact that mental illness, misogyny, homophobia, politics, and religion have on children who want to be men It’s rare to find a book that is simultaneously searing in its social critique and so lush in its prose that it verges on poetry. Ben Lerner’s new book, “The Topeka School,” is an extraordinarily brilliant novel that’s also accessible to anyone yearning for illumination in our disputatious era. If you’ve been nervously hopping along the shore of Lerner’s work, now’s the time to dive in. The Topeka School is a sort of prequel to these two novels. It is set in the late 1990s, at the end of history (which turned out to be more of a pause) in Topeka, Kansas, where Lerner himself grew The Topeka School is a 2019 novel by the American novelist and poet Ben Lerner about a high school debate champion from Topeka, Kansas in the 1990s.

He has received fellowships from the Fulbright, Guggenheim, and MacArthur Foundations, Book Summary. From the award-winning author of 10:04 and Leaving the Atocha Station, a tender and expansive family drama set in the American Midwest at the Oct 28, 2019 Ben Lerner is a critically acclaimed poet, novelist, and essayist with plenty of well -deserved accolades — he's currently a MacArthur Fellow, has Aug 21, 2019 The Topeka School is an effort at a bildungsroman proper, a fictionalization of his own youth in Kansas in the late nineties.