Ben Lerner: Transcription

What can fiction record that our devices can’t? In Ben Lerner’s Transcription, a novelist arrives to interview his aging mentor, then drops his phone (i.e. his only recording device) in the sink.

What unfolds is a searching meditation on human connection and the strange ways technology reshapes our memories.

The acclaimed poet and author of The Topeka School and Leaving the Atocha Station reflects with Max Porter on memory, parenthood, and relationships.