Ben Lerner is an American poet, novelist, and critic. He was awarded the Hayden Carruth prize for his cycle of fifty-two sonnets, The Lichtenberg Figures. In 2004, Library Journal named it one of the year's twelve best books of poetry. The Lichtenberg Figures appeared in a German translation in 2010, for which it received the "Preis der Stadt Münster für internationale Poesie" in 2011, making Lerner the first American to receive this honor.
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 in 2003 where he wrote his second book, Angle of Yaw, which was published in 2006 and was subsequently named a finalist for the National Book Award, and was selected by Brian Foley as one of the "25 important books of poetry of the 00s (2000-2009)". Lerner's third full-length poetry collection, Mean Free Path, was published in 2010.
Lerner's first novel, Leaving the Atocha Station, was published by Coffee House Press in August 2011. It was named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New Statesman, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, and New York Magazine, among other periodicals. It won the Believer Book Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award for "first fiction" and the New York Public Library's Young Lions prize.
In 2008 Lerner began editing poetry for Critical Quarterly, a British academic publication. He has taught at California College of the Arts, the University of Pittsburgh, and in 2010 joined the faculty of the MFA program at Brooklyn College.
Lerner's mother is the well-known psychologist Harriet Lerner.
发表于2024-11-07
The Topeka School 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
译︱石晰颋 正如菲利普·拉金说他自己那样,大部分的写作者都不会“连环屠龙”。在他们达到某种程度的成功之后,一个人的文学生活就可以与另一个人进行比较:能够花在写作上的时间,以及思考写作的时间;在校园里写作,或者如果幸运的话,在异国他乡的文学艺术节里写作。对于自...
评分译︱石晰颋 正如菲利普·拉金说他自己那样,大部分的写作者都不会“连环屠龙”。在他们达到某种程度的成功之后,一个人的文学生活就可以与另一个人进行比较:能够花在写作上的时间,以及思考写作的时间;在校园里写作,或者如果幸运的话,在异国他乡的文学艺术节里写作。对于自...
评分译︱石晰颋 正如菲利普·拉金说他自己那样,大部分的写作者都不会“连环屠龙”。在他们达到某种程度的成功之后,一个人的文学生活就可以与另一个人进行比较:能够花在写作上的时间,以及思考写作的时间;在校园里写作,或者如果幸运的话,在异国他乡的文学艺术节里写作。对于自...
评分译︱石晰颋 正如菲利普·拉金说他自己那样,大部分的写作者都不会“连环屠龙”。在他们达到某种程度的成功之后,一个人的文学生活就可以与另一个人进行比较:能够花在写作上的时间,以及思考写作的时间;在校园里写作,或者如果幸运的话,在异国他乡的文学艺术节里写作。对于自...
评分译︱石晰颋 正如菲利普·拉金说他自己那样,大部分的写作者都不会“连环屠龙”。在他们达到某种程度的成功之后,一个人的文学生活就可以与另一个人进行比较:能够花在写作上的时间,以及思考写作的时间;在校园里写作,或者如果幸运的话,在异国他乡的文学艺术节里写作。对于自...
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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 turn of the century: a tale of adolescence, transgression, and the conditions that have given rise to the trolls and tyrants of the New Right.
Adam Gordon is a senior at Topeka High School, class of ’97. His mother, Jane, is a famous feminist author; his father, Jonathan, is an expert at getting “lost boys” to open up. They both work at a psychiatric clinic that has attracted staff and patients from around the world. Adam is a renowned debater, expected to win a national championship before he heads to college. He is one of the cool kids, ready to fight or, better, freestyle about fighting if it keeps his peers from thinking of him as weak. Adam is also one of the seniors who bring the loner Darren Eberheart―who is, unbeknownst to Adam, his father’s patient―into the social scene, to disastrous effect.
Deftly shifting perspectives and time periods, The Topeka School is the story of a family, its struggles and its strengths: Jane’s reckoning with the legacy of an abusive father, Jonathan’s marital transgressions, the challenge of raising a good son in a culture of toxic masculinity. It is also a riveting prehistory of the present: the collapse of public speech, the trolls and tyrants of the New Right, and the ongoing crisis of identity among white men.
(3.5) Dealt masterfully with multiple indeterminate narratives and time conjunctions/ eclipses, yet this relatively loose weaving of perspectives, storylines, contemplations, and history could not bring altogether a pivotal arch and core, thus languishing the strength of the message it tries to convey. ( # Masculine glossolalia
评分Jane的部分很好看。总体还是太意识流。以后碰到literary fiction要小心。
评分难看的部分非常难看,好看的部分也非常好看。一直在撕书和惊叹之间徘徊。也可能是难看的部分太难看了,稍微好看一点,便觉非常好。就像难吃的食物吃多了,连榨菜都是人间美味。
评分难看的部分非常难看,好看的部分也非常好看。一直在撕书和惊叹之间徘徊。也可能是难看的部分太难看了,稍微好看一点,便觉非常好。就像难吃的食物吃多了,连榨菜都是人间美味。
评分(3.5) Dealt masterfully with multiple indeterminate narratives and time conjunctions/ eclipses, yet this relatively loose weaving of perspectives, storylines, contemplations, and history could not bring altogether a pivotal arch and core, thus languishing the strength of the message it tries to convey. ( # Masculine glossolalia
The Topeka School 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书