Transcription by Ben Lerner audiobook review – a mediation on memory for the smartphone era
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TLDRWe meet the unnamed narrator of Transcription on a train to Providence, Rhode Island. Ben Lerner’s novella is a thoughtful meditation on memory, storytelling and lives lived through technology. The narrator’s anxiety over his phone falls away as he engages with the world around him and with his past.
We meet the unnamed narrator of Transcription on a train to Providence, Rhode Island. He is going to interview his one-time mentor Thomas, a celebrated German writer and film-maker, who is 90 and who, owing to his age, probably won’t be interviewed again. The narrator confesses to his young daughter, Eva, that he is nervous about the meeting. Those nerves are replaced by panic when he gets to his
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