Ben Lerner: 10:04

Bookworm

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4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2014

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lerner is a novelist/poet who writes about the way we live now, which is not the way we used to live.

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0:00.0	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.
0:03.5	Boots!
0:06.0	Where would we be without boos?
0:12.0	Where would we be without good?
0:15.0	No, Timberd.
0:16.0	It's a rhetorical question, sir.
0:19.0	But where would we be without books?
0:23.4	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Sulferblatt, and this is Bookworm.
0:29.9	You know, if people are talking about a novel right now, they're probably talking about a book called 1004 by my guest, Ben Werner.
0:39.4	It's published by Faber and Faber.
0:42.7	It's his second novel before these novels.
0:47.3	He wrote three books of poetry.
0:50.0	And I would say that just about everything about this novel is strange or disorienting,
1:00.8	beginning with its title.
1:02.6	Has there ever been a title that's a number and not just a number, but a time?
1:09.1	I don't think so.
1:10.8	I wasn't able to find one anyway.
1:12.6	I mean, there are plenty of novels that have years as titles, as you know, but I'd never
1:16.6	found one that was just a time.
1:18.6	Oh, like 1984.
1:20.6	Right.
1:21.6	Yes, but this is 1004.
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