“I'm aware of narrating certain experiences as they happen or obliterating those experiences with narrative and then those stories - not the experiences themselves - might become material for art. This kind of transformation shows up a lot in 10:04 because the book tracks the transposition of fact into fiction in the New Yorker stor” KindArtBookFactsStoriesShowsMightHappensCertainFictionMaterialsTransformationTrackNarrativeNew Yorkers Author:Ben Lerner
“Few real people appear in my two novels, actually. "Ari" appears on the edge of this book a couple of times - but on the edge, she's never in it, even if she's a determining force from the outside. Everybody in the first book was basically made up, if never from scratch.” PeopleIfsFirstsMadeTwoBookRealForceNovelCoupleEdgesScratches Author:Ben Lerner
