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

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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