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A Technical Masterwork: On Ben Lerner’s “The Topkea School”
You don’t read Ben Lerner’s writing. You read Ben Lerner’s mind. His immense, contorted, self-effacing, hilarious intellect propels his narratives. Sure, his novels have characters, plots, themes.
Alice's Moth
As I watched small flitting creatures
appear again and again in the poems,
I was struck with a sudden desire to witness
some such small creatures in person.
Scholar's Mate
When he was small, a Huey strafed
the walls of his house. Abuela’s options
were either pray God would skew the hail
Good Company for a Polyglot: On Pola Oloixarac’s “Dark Constellations”
Certain writers assault you with their intelligence, not as, or only as, a performance, but rather out of necessity: they simply cannot stop thinking. Humor has long been the balm of metacognition, laughter a scaffolding over the abyss.
Deportable Alien, Excerpted from “The Body Papers”
To celebrate having passed the boards for foreign medical graduates, my father bought a new Chevy Caprice station wagon, turtle green with matching interior. The flatbed in the back folded into a bench seat that faced the rear.
In Defiance of Categorical Distinction: On The Best Small Fictions 2019 Anthology
Categorization is tyranny, even if it is useful to customers who might care to know what they are buying without having to think too much about it.
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