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,...

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

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...