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The Topeka School is a literary novel published by Ben Lerner in 2019. Lerner, an acclaimed writer and a winner of the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship in 2015, is well-known for his poetry and his novels. I graduated from Topeka West High School one year after novelist Ben Lerner graduated from Topeka High, both of us college-bound. His parents were psychologists at the Menninger Clinic, a renowned The Topeka School Ben Lerner, 2019 Farrar, Straus & Giroux 304 pp. Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School: a fascinating, sometimes messy book In his latest novel, Lerner attempts to use 1990s America to explain Donald Trump’s US, a nation hamstrung by a degraded political discourse and toxic masculinity run rampant. Lerner was born and raised in Topeka, Kansas, which figures in each of his books of poetry.

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Ben Lerner comes from Topeka, and he draws on his upbringing Sep 3, 2020 The Topeka School by Ben Lerner, 9781783785377, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. Sep 29, 2020 Deftly shifting perspectives and time periods, Ben Lerner's The Topeka School is the story of a family, its struggles and its strengths: Jane's Oct 1, 2019 Late in The Topeka School, Ben Lerner's brilliant new novel, a character asks, “ How do you rid yourself of a voice, keep it from becoming part of Jan 6, 2020 A recurring image throughout Ben Lerner's psychoanalytically saturated novel The Topeka School is that of Adam Gordon, a linguistically gifted Adam Gordon is a senior at Topeka High School, class of '97. His parents are psychologists, his mom a famous author in the field. A renowned debater and orator, Sep 29, 2020 Ben Lerner was born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1979. He has received fellowships from the Fulbright, Guggenheim, Howard, and MacArthur Pris: 199 kr.

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2019-10-01 Ben Lerner’s novel is both a contained story of family life and a far-reaching exploration of this exact moment in America. The focus doesn’t stray from Adam, a skilled high school debater, and his parents, both psychologists at a Topeka foundation, but the themes addressed are so numerous that they resemble the “spread” — when debaters inundate their opponents with every argument Ben Lerner is no stranger to novels about personal growth, having won critical acclaim for his first two, Leaving Atocha Station and 10:04. But his latest work, The Topeka School, is his most thought-provoking portrait of development yet (perhaps because it’s set in his hometown, the titular Topeka). The novel follows teenager Adam Gordon as … --Evan Kindley, The Nation "Ben Lerner's The Topeka School is the best novel of the Donald Trump era thus far.

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Nov 12, 2019 Book review. Ben Lerner's third and strongest novel to date, “The Topeka School, ” opens in an interrogation room. We are introduced to the Oct 28, 2019 Ben Lerner's third novel, The Topeka School, published earlier this month, is a dizzying collage of the various life stages that shape a person, Oct 8, 2019 Author Ben Lerner's new semi-autobiographical book, The Topeka School, finds a competitive-debate whiz kid navigating adolescence — and Dec 2, 2019 Ben Lerner has returned with a new novel, The Topeka School, and the highest expectations. His two previous novels, Leaving the Atocha The Topeka School : A Novel by Ben Lerner. $17.00. In stock (can be Adam Gordon is a senior at Topeka High School, class of '97. His mother, Jane, is a Nov 5, 2019 'The sense that there exists a gap between language and the world is the theme to which Ben Lerner's writing has most relentlessly returned.' Oct 3, 2019 by Zack Graham You don't read Ben Lerner's writing.

It is also a riveting prehistory of the present: the collapse of public speech, the trolls and tyrants of the New Right, and the ongoing crisis of identity among white men. In “The Topeka School,” Lerner’s extraordinary new novel, the story of the chewing gum is recounted by Jane Gordon, a fictionalized version of the author’s mother. Like Harriet, Jane is a therapist The Topeka School is a literary novel published by Ben Lerner in 2019. Lerner, an acclaimed writer and a winner of the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship in 2015, is well-known for his poetry and his novels. His novels are often referred to as “autofiction,” due to the fact that they feature fictionalized versions of himself and other figures from his life. Author Ben Lerner's new semi-autobiographical book, The Topeka School, finds a competitive-debate whiz kid navigating adolescence — and perhaps the precursors to today's American politics. T he Topeka School, Ben Lerner’s third novel, begins with a self-aware joke.
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Originalspråk: Ben Lerner är en omskriven ung amerikansk författare med ambition att Adam Gordon från Topeka, Kansas bluffar aktivt eftersom han från början utgår from the language school went to get high and drink, swim, hook up. Luster. Raven Leilani.

Ben Lerner is an American poet, novelist, and critic. He was awarded the Hayden Carruth prize for his cycle of fifty-two sonnets, The Lichtenberg Figures.In 2004, Library Journal named it one of the year's twelve best books of poetry. Ben Lerner’s third and already highly celebrated novel, The Topeka School, is, like Lerner’s previous works of fiction, both heavily autobiographical and heavily concerned with language itself, how language functions and how it breaks down, how it stands in for other modes of expression and how we express ourselves with and without it. “Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School is the best novel of the Donald Trump era thus far.
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In Speech and Debate competitions, there's a technique used by Nov 15, 2020 In Ben Lerner's coming-of-age novel The Topeka School, alternating narrators weave a complex tapestry of teenager Adam Gordan's journey In the interview that follows, Lerner calls The Topeka School, which came out last fall, a “prehistory” of his earlier novels, Leaving the Atocha Station and 10:04. Jan 5, 2020 My review of Ben Lerner's The Topeka School (Granta) appears in today's Business Post. Here's a short excerpt: Lerner's previous novels, May 21, 2020 Ben Lerner's The Topeka School, recently awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Award for best fiction and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, is our Dec 11, 2019 The Topeka School opens with a brilliant set-piece scene. Adam—a stand-in for Ben Lerner familiar from the author's two previous Nov 8, 2019 Ben Lerner, the celebrated young poet and novelist in town for the Chicago Humanities Fest late last month, is said to have once apologized to Ben Lerner. CBC Books · Posted: Aug 20, 2019 3:09 PM ET | Last Updated: January 28, 2020.