Wednesday, October 14· 2:15pm– 3:30pm
Transcription: A Conversation on Ben Lerner’s Latest Book, With Lerner and Jeff Dolven
Join Ben Lerner, Distinguished Professor of English at Brooklyn College, and Jeff Dolven, Professor of English at Princeton University, for a conversation on Lerner’s latest novel, Transcription. The novel is the winner of the 2026 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and was named a “Best Book of the Year (So Far)” by
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The New York Times. Kevin Lozano, of New York Magazine, referred to Transcription as “a novel that attempts to reimagine the most alienating of our shared afflictions—the human body in disarray, the relatively new societal anxiety of phone addiction—into a more humane aesthetic experience.