Episode 192 "Transcription by Ben Lerner"

About this episode

The episode reviews Ben Lerner's novel 'Transcription' and discusses its limitations and the concept of beach reads.

On this week's episode, we review the latest novel by Ben Lerner. We discuss auto-fictions limitations and why we were left frustrated by this potentially thought provoking novel. And, finally, we discussed adding a beach read to our TBR, (since Lerner was so adamant that his latest novel was most definitely not a beach read) If you've read "Transcription" let us know your thoughts. As always, thanks for listening. Contact Us: Instagram @therewillbbooks Twitter @therewillbbooks Email willbebooks@gmail.com Goodreads: Therewillbebooks ko-fi.com/therewillbbooks patreon.com/therewillbbooks

People in this episode

Host: Peter Murphy

Topics covered

• book review
• auto-fiction
• literary criticism
• beach read
• frustration

Keywords

• Ben Lerner
• Transcription
• auto-fiction
• book review
• literary criticism

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Transcription

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