Writer Ben Lerner: How Voices Come into a Novel | Louisiana Channel

Name: Writer Ben Lerner: How Voices Come into a Novel | Louisiana Channel
Uploaded: 2023
Duration: 21 min

202321 minHD★ 7.7Arts & Culture

American writer Ben Lerner on how society shapes our identity. “Our voice is this tissue of contradictions that is influenced by family, mass media, and political speech.” Starting as a poet, Ben Lerner calls himself an “accidental novelist”. “One of the things I love about the novel is that it is a curatorial form; you can dramatize encounters with poems, and you can dramatize encounters with works of visual art. I am not in control of what genre I work in. You have to write what is given to you to write.”

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