![]() ![]() In 10:04, Ben’s meditations on art, concerns about selling out, and doubts about artificially inseminating his best friend (“Because would have been bizarre”) were framed by two massive weather events: Tropical Storm Irene, which hit New York in summer of 2011, and Hurricane Sandy, which landed in the autumn of 2012. ![]() Though we are more interconnected than ever, this phenomenon is most akin to the sensation of spiraling on a mass scale daily life requires reckoning with being an actor in the thrall of forces far more powerful than any individual.ġ0:04 was a reckoning with responsibility that was not yet required of the narrator of Leaving the Atocha Station. In 10:04, Lerner’s narrator, also named Ben, frets over how to act meaningfully in a world that often feels meaningless. Leaving the Atocha Station was about the quarter-life crisis of a talented misanthrope 10:04 (2014), Lerner’s second novel, was a negotiation with the success that Adam Gordon of Leaving the Atocha Station both desired and reviled. He shares this name with the narrator of Leaving the Atocha Station, Lerner’s debut novel from 2011. AN ADOLESCENT NAMED Adam Gordon is the protagonist of Ben Lerner’s new novel, The Topeka School. ![]()
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