About this Event
A writer returns to his college town, where he is to conduct what will be a final interview with Thomas, his ninety-year-old mentor. But after a slippery accident leaves his phone unworking in a hotel sink, he arrives at the interview with no recording device and an inexplicable incapacity to tell the Thomas the truth.
What follows is a masterful meditation on the technologies that enrich and encroach on our connections with one another, and a powerful excavation of the relationships that make us who we are.
Ben Lerner was born in Kansas, in 1979. He has received fellowships from the Fulbright, Guggenheim, and MacArthur Foundations, and is the author of three internationally acclaimed novels, Leaving the Atocha Station, 10:04 and The Topeka School, as well as multiple poetry collections. In 2011, he became the first American to win the Munster Prize for International Poetry, and is widely considered one of the most important American novelists writing today. Lerner lives and teaches in Brooklyn.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
St James's Piccadilly, 197 Piccadilly, London, United Kingdom
GBP 15.00 to GBP 26.00
