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Ben Lerner

January 01, 1970

Benjamin S. Lerner (born February 4, 1979)[1] is an American poet, novelist, essayist, critic and teacher. The recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright, Guggenheim, and MacArthur Foundations. Lerner has been a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, among many other honors.[2][3] Lerner teaches at Brooklyn College, where he was named a Distinguished Professor of English in 2016.[4]

Ben Lerner
Lerner in 2015
Born (1979-02-04) February 4, 1979 (age 45)
Topeka, Kansas, U.S.
EducationBrown University (BA, MFA)
GenrePoetry, novels, essays
Notable awardsFulbright Scholar
Guggenheim Fellowship
Believer Book Award
MacArthur Fellowship

Life and work edit

Lerner was born and raised in Topeka, Kansas, which figures in each of his books of poetry. His mother is the clinical psychologist Harriet Lerner.[5] He is a 1997 graduate of Topeka High School, where he participated in debate and forensics, winning the 1997 National Forensic League National Tournament in International Extemporaneous Speaking.[6] At Brown University he studied with poet C. D. Wright and earned a B.A. in political theory and an MFA in poetry.[7]

Lerner was awarded the Hayden Carruth prize for his cycle of 52 sonnets, The Lichtenberg Figures.[8] In 2004 Library Journal named it one of the year's 12 best books of poetry.

In 2003 Lerner traveled on a Fulbright Scholarship to Madrid, Spain, where he wrote his second book of poetry, Angle of Yaw, which was published in 2006. It was named a finalist for the National Book Award. His third poetry collection, Mean Free Path, was published in 2010.

Lerner's first novel, Leaving the Atocha Station, published in 2011,[9] won the Believer Book Award[10] and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for first fiction (The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction) and the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award. Writing in The Guardian, Geoff Dyer called it "a work so luminously original in style and form as to seem like a premonition, a comet from the future."[11]

Excerpts of Lerner's second novel, 10:04, won the Terry Southern Prize from The Paris Review.[12] Writing in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Maggie Nelson called 10:04 a "near perfect piece of literature."[13]

The New York Times Book Review called Lerner's 2019 novel The Topeka School "a high-water mark in recent American fiction."[14] Giles Harvey, in The New York Times Magazine, called it "the best book yet by the most talented writer of his generation." Lerner's essays, art criticism, and literary criticism have appeared in Harper's Magazine, the London Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, and The New Yorker, among other publications.[15] The Topeka School, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.[16]

In 2023, Lerner published his fourth full-length book of poetry, both verse and prose poems, The Lights. In The New York Times, Srikanth Reddy wrote: "It takes a poet to invent characters who argue that 'the voice must be sung into existence.' It takes a novelist to honor so many perspectives, histories and intimacies in one book..The poet/novelist of The Lights enlarges Baudelaire’s experiments in prose poetry into a multistory dream house for contemporary American readers." In The New Yorker, Kamran Javadizadeh called The Lights "world-bridging poetry", "uncannily beautiful", and "exceedingly lovely".

In 2008 Lerner began editing poetry for Critical Quarterly, a British scholarly publication.[17] In 2016 he became the first poetry editor at Harper's.[18] He has taught at California College of the Arts and the University of Pittsburgh, and in 2010 joined the faculty of the MFA program at Brooklyn College.[19]

In 2016 Lerner became a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities.[20] He received a 2015 MacArthur Fellowship.[21]

Work on Wikipedia edit

In the December 2023 issue of Harper's Magazine, Lerner published a fictional story titled "The Hofmann Wobble: Wikipedia and the Problem of Historical Memory."[22] In the story, Lerner demonstrates a familiarity with Wikipedian editing and administrative processes, as well as problematic issues such as circular reporting, sockfarm creation, and sponsored content on Wikipedia. He explained: "I've written a short story—or a kind of fictional essay (it's based on a real project of mine but all the facts have been altered)—about a young man's efforts to manipulate Wikipedia for the good (so he thinks) through the construction of multiple online identities."

Reflections about Lerner's piece prompted a "Disinformation Report" reflection in the December 4, 2023, issue of The Signpost.[23]

Bibliography edit

Poetry edit

  • The Lichtenberg figures. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press. 2004.
  • Angle of Yaw. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press. 2006. ISBN 9781556592461.
  • Mean Free Path. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press. 2010. ISBN 9781619320741.
  • No Art. 2016. Collection of previous three volumes.
  • The Lights. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2023.

Novels edit

Non-fiction edit

  • The Hatred of Poetry. FSG Originals, 2016.

Edited volumes edit

  • Keeping / the window open: Interviews, Statements, Alarms, Excursions. On Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop. Wave Books, 2019.

Collaborations with artists edit

Awards edit

References edit

  1. ^ . September 26, 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-09-26.
  2. ^ "Writers Speak | Ben Lerner in conversation with Duncan White". mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu.
  3. ^ a b "2020 Pulitzer Prizes". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2023-11-30.
  4. ^ "CUNY Trustees Approve New Labor Contracts – CUNY Newswire". from the original on 2016-09-22. Retrieved 2016-07-04.
  5. ^ Link (2006-12-05). "Silliman's Blog". Ronsilliman.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2011-06-19.
  6. ^ Blankenship, Bill (March 9, 2005). "Young poet to read works at Washburn". The Topeka Capital-Journal. Retrieved May 7, 2014.
  7. ^ Lerner, Ben (January 14, 2016). "Postscript: C.D. Wright, 1949-2016". The New Yorker.
  8. ^ "Ben Lerner's First Time". The Paris Review. Retrieved June 27, 2016.
  9. ^ "Ben Lerner". Narrative Magazine. 2008-12-15. from the original on 14 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-06-19.
  10. ^ a b . Archived from the original on 3 January 2015. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  11. ^ Dyer, Geoff (2012-07-05). "Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner – review". The Guardian. from the original on 2016-11-21. Retrieved 2016-12-11.
  12. ^ a b The Paris Review (2014-03-12). "Emma Cline Wins Plimpton Prize; Ben Lerner Wins Terry Southern Prize". The Paris Review. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  13. ^ Nelson, Maggie (August 24, 2014). "Slipping the Surly Bonds of Earth: On Ben Lerner's Latest". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2019-10-09.
  14. ^ Hallberg, Garth Risk (2019-10-03). "Ben Lerner's 'The Topeka School' Revisits the Debates of the '90s". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
  15. ^ a b . Archived from the original on 2013-04-15. Retrieved 2013-04-12.
  16. ^ Maher, John (May 4, 2020). "Moser, Whitehead, McDaniel, Grandin, Boyer, Brown Win 2020 Pulitzers". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved May 4, 2020.
  17. ^ Gavin, Alice (2008-04-16). "The 'angle of immunity': face and façade in Beckett's Film". Critical Quarterly. 50 (3): 77–89. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8705.2008.00833.x.
  18. ^ McMorris, Mark (March 2016). "The Drums of Marrakesh". Harper's Magazine. from the original on 2016-05-02. Retrieved 2016-04-04.
  19. ^ . Depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu. Archived from the original on 2011-09-03. Retrieved 2011-06-19.
  20. ^ "Meet the New Fellows of 2016". 9 May 2016.
  21. ^ "Ben Lerner — MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2015-09-29.
  22. ^ Lerner, Ben (December 2023). "The Hofmann Wobble: Wikipedia and the problem of historical memory". Harper's Magazine. Vol. 347, no. 2083. pp. 27–32.
  23. ^ "Wikipedia and the assault on history". The Signpost. 19 (23). December 4, 2023.
  24. ^ "FSG's Favorite Books of 2013". Work in Progress. 2013-12-19. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  25. ^ "Ben Lerner", University of Pittsburgh. March 15, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  26. ^ "Acclaimed young poet Ben Lerner relocates to Pittsburgh. – Books – Book Reviews & Features – Pittsburgh City Paper". Pittsburghcitypaper.ws. from the original on 14 June 2011. Retrieved 2011-06-19.
  27. ^ . Nationalbook.org. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 19 June 2011.
  28. ^ . Poetry Flash. Archived from the original on 2008-05-13.
  29. ^ . Brown.edu. Archived from the original on 7 June 2011. Retrieved 2011-06-19.
  30. ^ "Stadt Münster: Kulturamt – Lyrikertreffen". Muenster.de. from the original on 17 June 2011. Retrieved 2011-06-19.
  31. ^ . Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2017-06-10. Retrieved 2012-03-13.
  32. ^ "The New York Public Library's 2012 Young Lions Fiction Award Finalists Announced". Flavorwire. 14 March 2012. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  33. ^ . Archived from the original on 2012-05-29. Retrieved 2012-05-19.
  34. ^ "Finalist for the 2012 PEN/Bingham Award". Star Tribune.
  35. ^ . Archived from the original on 2013-04-29. Retrieved 2013-07-22.
  36. ^ Kellogg, Carolyn (2015-02-09). "Folio Prize shortlist includes Ben Lerner, Colm Toibin, Ali Smith". The Los Angeles Times. from the original on 2016-11-27. Retrieved 2014-11-26.

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January 01, 1970
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Benjamin S Lerner born February 4 1979 1 is an American poet novelist essayist critic and teacher The recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations Lerner has been a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction among many other honors 2 3 Lerner teaches at Brooklyn College where he was named a Distinguished Professor of English in 2016 4 Ben LernerLerner in 2015Born 1979 02 04 February 4 1979 age 45 Topeka Kansas U S EducationBrown University BA MFA GenrePoetry novels essaysNotable awardsFulbright ScholarGuggenheim FellowshipBeliever Book AwardMacArthur Fellowship Contents 1 Life and work 2 Work on Wikipedia 3 Bibliography 3 1 Poetry 3 2 Novels 3 3 Non fiction 3 4 Edited volumes 3 5 Collaborations with artists 4 Awards 5 References 6 External linksLife and work editLerner was born and raised in Topeka Kansas which figures in each of his books of poetry His mother is the clinical psychologist Harriet Lerner 5 He is a 1997 graduate of Topeka High School where he participated in debate and forensics winning the 1997 National Forensic League National Tournament in International Extemporaneous Speaking 6 At Brown University he studied with poet C D Wright and earned a B A in political theory and an MFA in poetry 7 Lerner was awarded the Hayden Carruth prize for his cycle of 52 sonnets The Lichtenberg Figures 8 In 2004 Library Journal named it one of the year s 12 best books of poetry In 2003 Lerner traveled on a Fulbright Scholarship to Madrid Spain where he wrote his second book of poetry Angle of Yaw which was published in 2006 It was named a finalist for the National Book Award His third poetry collection Mean Free Path was published in 2010 Lerner s first novel Leaving the Atocha Station published in 2011 9 won the Believer Book Award 10 and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for first fiction The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the New York Public Library s Young Lions Fiction Award Writing in The Guardian Geoff Dyer called it a work so luminously original in style and form as to seem like a premonition a comet from the future 11 Excerpts of Lerner s second novel 10 04 won the Terry Southern Prize from The Paris Review 12 Writing in the Los Angeles Review of Books Maggie Nelson called 10 04 a near perfect piece of literature 13 The New York Times Book Review called Lerner s 2019 novel The Topeka School a high water mark in recent American fiction 14 Giles Harvey in The New York Times Magazine called it the best book yet by the most talented writer of his generation Lerner s essays art criticism and literary criticism have appeared in Harper s Magazine the London Review of Books The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker among other publications 15 The Topeka School which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 16 In 2023 Lerner published his fourth full length book of poetry both verse and prose poems The Lights In The New York Times Srikanth Reddy wrote It takes a poet to invent characters who argue that the voice must be sung into existence It takes a novelist to honor so many perspectives histories and intimacies in one book The poet novelist of The Lights enlarges Baudelaire s experiments in prose poetry into a multistory dream house for contemporary American readers In The New Yorker Kamran Javadizadeh called The Lights world bridging poetry uncannily beautiful and exceedingly lovely In 2008 Lerner began editing poetry for Critical Quarterly a British scholarly publication 17 In 2016 he became the first poetry editor at Harper s 18 He has taught at California College of the Arts and the University of Pittsburgh and in 2010 joined the faculty of the MFA program at Brooklyn College 19 In 2016 Lerner became a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities 20 He received a 2015 MacArthur Fellowship 21 Work on Wikipedia editIn the December 2023 issue of Harper s Magazine Lerner published a fictional story titled The Hofmann Wobble Wikipedia and the Problem of Historical Memory 22 In the story Lerner demonstrates a familiarity with Wikipedian editing and administrative processes as well as problematic issues such as circular reporting sockfarm creation and sponsored content on Wikipedia He explained I ve written a short story or a kind of fictional essay it s based on a real project of mine but all the facts have been altered about a young man s efforts to manipulate Wikipedia for the good so he thinks through the construction of multiple online identities Reflections about Lerner s piece prompted a Disinformation Report reflection in the December 4 2023 issue of The Signpost 23 Bibliography editThis list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items September 2019 Poetry edit The Lichtenberg figures Port Townsend Copper Canyon Press 2004 Angle of Yaw Port Townsend Copper Canyon Press 2006 ISBN 9781556592461 Mean Free Path Port Townsend Copper Canyon Press 2010 ISBN 9781619320741 No Art 2016 Collection of previous three volumes The Lights New York Farrar Straus and Giroux 2023 Novels edit Leaving the Atocha Station Coffee House Press 2011 ISBN 9781566892926 10 04 Farrar Straus and Giroux 2014 ISBN 978 0865478107 24 The Topeka School Farrar Straus and Giroux 2019 Non fiction edit The Hatred of Poetry FSG Originals 2016 Edited volumes edit Keeping the window open Interviews Statements Alarms Excursions On Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop Wave Books 2019 Collaborations with artists edit Blossom Mack Books 2015 With Thomas Demand The Polish Rider Mack Books 2018 With Anna Ostoya The Snows of Venice Spector Books 2018 With Alexander Kluge Gold Custody Mack Books 2021 With Barbara Bloom The Cliches Song Cave Editions 2022 With R H QuaytmanAwards edit2003 Hayden Carruth Award 25 2003 2004 Fulbright Fellowship 26 2006 Finalist National Book Award 27 for Angle of Yaw 2006 Finalist Northern California Book Awards for Angle of Yaw 28 2007 Kansas Notable Book Award for Angle of Yaw 2010 2011 Howard Foundation Fellowship 29 2011 Preis der Stadt Munster fur internationale Poesie 30 2011 Finalist Los Angeles Times Book Prize for first fiction 31 2012 Finalist Young Lions Fiction Award of the New York Public Library 32 2012 Believer Book Award 10 2012 Finalist William Saroyan International Prize for Writing 33 2012 Finalist PEN Bingham Award 34 2013 Finalist James Tait Black Memorial Prize 35 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship 15 2014 Terry Southern Fiction Prize from The Paris Review 12 2014 Finalist Folio Prize 36 2017 named one of Granta s best young American novelists 2015 2020 Winner MacArthur Foundation Fellowship 2019 Finalist Folio Prize 2019 Finalist National Book Critics Circle Award 2019 Winner Kansas Notable Book Award 2019 Winner Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction 2020 Finalist Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 3 2024 Long listed for The Griffin Prize for poetryReferences edit I m going to kill the president Ben Lerner Lyrikline org September 26 2016 Archived from the original on 2016 09 26 Writers Speak Ben Lerner in conversation with Duncan White mahindrahumanities fas harvard edu a b 2020 Pulitzer Prizes www pulitzer org Retrieved 2023 11 30 CUNY Trustees Approve New Labor Contracts CUNY Newswire Archived from the original on 2016 09 22 Retrieved 2016 07 04 Link 2006 12 05 Silliman s Blog Ronsilliman blogspot com Retrieved 2011 06 19 Blankenship Bill March 9 2005 Young poet to read works at Washburn The Topeka Capital Journal Retrieved May 7 2014 Lerner Ben January 14 2016 Postscript C D Wright 1949 2016 The New Yorker Ben Lerner s First Time The Paris Review Retrieved June 27 2016 Ben Lerner Narrative Magazine 2008 12 15 Archived from the original on 14 July 2011 Retrieved 2011 06 19 a b Ben Lerner Wins the Believer Book Award Archived from the original on 3 January 2015 Retrieved 22 March 2016 Dyer Geoff 2012 07 05 Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner review The Guardian Archived from the original on 2016 11 21 Retrieved 2016 12 11 a b The Paris Review 2014 03 12 Emma Cline Wins Plimpton Prize Ben Lerner Wins Terry Southern Prize The Paris Review Retrieved 22 March 2016 Nelson Maggie August 24 2014 Slipping the Surly Bonds of Earth On Ben Lerner s Latest Los Angeles Review of Books Retrieved 2019 10 09 Hallberg Garth Risk 2019 10 03 Ben Lerner s The Topeka School Revisits the Debates of the 90s The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 2019 10 05 a b Ben Lerner John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Archived from the original on 2013 04 15 Retrieved 2013 04 12 Maher John May 4 2020 Moser Whitehead McDaniel Grandin Boyer Brown Win 2020 Pulitzers Publishers Weekly Retrieved May 4 2020 Gavin Alice 2008 04 16 The angle of immunity face and facade in Beckett s Film Critical Quarterly 50 3 77 89 doi 10 1111 j 1467 8705 2008 00833 x McMorris Mark March 2016 The Drums of Marrakesh Harper s Magazine Archived from the original on 2016 05 02 Retrieved 2016 04 04 Brooklyn College English Department MFA Faculty Depthome brooklyn cuny edu Archived from the original on 2011 09 03 Retrieved 2011 06 19 Meet the New Fellows of 2016 9 May 2016 Ben Lerner MacArthur Foundation www macfound org Retrieved 2015 09 29 Lerner Ben December 2023 The Hofmann Wobble Wikipedia and the problem of historical memory Harper s Magazine Vol 347 no 2083 pp 27 32 Wikipedia and the assault on history The Signpost 19 23 December 4 2023 FSG s Favorite Books of 2013 Work in Progress 2013 12 19 Retrieved 22 March 2016 Ben Lerner University of Pittsburgh Archived March 15 2009 at the Wayback Machine Acclaimed young poet Ben Lerner relocates to Pittsburgh Books Book Reviews amp Features Pittsburgh City Paper Pittsburghcitypaper ws Archived from the original on 14 June 2011 Retrieved 2011 06 19 National Book Award 2006 Nationalbook org Archived from the original on 16 July 2011 Retrieved 19 June 2011 Poetry Flash NCBRAwards Poetry Flash Archived from the original on 2008 05 13 New Fellows Brown edu Archived from the original on 7 June 2011 Retrieved 2011 06 19 Stadt Munster Kulturamt Lyrikertreffen Muenster de Archived from the original on 17 June 2011 Retrieved 2011 06 19 Book Prizes Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Archived from the original on 2017 06 10 Retrieved 2012 03 13 The New York Public Library s 2012 Young Lions Fiction Award Finalists Announced Flavorwire 14 March 2012 Retrieved 22 March 2016 2012 Saroyan Prize Shortlist Archived from the original on 2012 05 29 Retrieved 2012 05 19 Finalist for the 2012 PEN Bingham Award Star Tribune Last year s shortlist James Tait Black Prizes Archived from the original on 2013 04 29 Retrieved 2013 07 22 Kellogg Carolyn 2015 02 09 Folio Prize shortlist includes Ben Lerner Colm Toibin Ali Smith The Los Angeles Times Archived from the original on 2016 11 27 Retrieved 2014 11 26 External links editAn essay about The Topeka School and Lerner s other novels at Harper s An excerpt from The Topeka School at The New Yorker Lerner s page and the MacArthur Foundation Lerner s page for the Griffin Poetry Prize An editorial by Lerner against funding cuts in higher education Interview with Ariana Reines in Bomb Magazine Lerner s page at the Guggenheim Foundation Lerner s National Book Award page Archived 2011 07 16 at the Wayback Machine Lerner s page at Narrative magazine Interview with Lerner in The New Yorker Interview with Lerner in The Believer Interview with Lerner in Bookforum Interview with Lerner in The Huffington Post Audio of Lerner poetry reading My First Time interview with Lerner by The Paris Review Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Ben Lerner amp oldid 1219588304, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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