The Topeka school —Lerner, Ben, 1979- author.

From Ben Lerner, author of '10:04' and 'Leaving the Atocha Station', comes a tender and expansive family drama set in the American Midwest at the turn of the century, hailed by Maggie Nelson as Lerner's "most discerning,...

The hatred of poetry —Lerner, Ben, 1979- author.

"Perhaps Marianne Moore said it best: "I, too, dislike it". What other art takes its marginality as a given, and is so widely bemoaned even by its practitioners? Ben Lerner writes, "Many more people agree they hate poetr...

10:04 : a novel —Lerner, Ben, 1979- author.

10:04 : a novel —Lerner, Ben, 1979- author.

"Leaving the Atocha Station was hailed as "one of the truest (and funniest) novels...of his generation" (Lorin Stein, New York Review of Books), "a work so luminously original in style and form as to seem like a premonit...