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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.

Finalist for 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 pub...