Ben Lerner | Granta

Ben Lerner

BEN LERNER was born in Topeka, 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. He has published the poetry collections The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw (a finalist for the National Book Award), Mean Free Path and No Art as well as the essay The Hatred of Poetry. Lerner lives and teaches in Brooklyn.

Publications

Books

The Lights

Ben Lerner

£12.99
American Fiction

The Topeka School

Ben Lerner

£8.99
Poetry

No Art

Ben Lerner

£10.99
Books

Leaving the Atocha Station

Ben Lerner

£9.99
Books

10:04

Ben Lerner

£8.99

Ben Lerner on Granta.com

Fiction | Issue 148
Fiction | Issue 148

The Spread

Ben Lerner

‘He began to feel less like he was delivering a speech and more like a speech was delivering him.’

Read an extract from Ben Lerner’s latest novel, The Topeka School.

Fiction | Issue 139
Fiction | Issue 139

Bright Circle

Ben Lerner

‘Things he dreamt began to show up in the bushes, the plastic figurine from a parachute firework, the small dull rusted circular saw blade he thought of as a throwing star, and he pocketed those things.’

Poetry | Issue 120 padlock
Poetry | Issue 120 padlock

Dilation

Ben Lerner

‘My role in the slaughter doesn’t disqualify the beauty I find in all / forms of sheltered flame.’

In Conversation | Issue 120
In Conversation | Issue 120

Ben Lerner | Interview

Ben Lerner & Ted Hodgkinson

‘I have no memory of intending to write a novel.’

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