![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 10:04 is not a mere novel about a writer writing the novel that the reader is reading. What makes Lerner such an exciting writer, however, is neither irony nor clever metafiction. ![]() This time, the narrator is a poet who, having earned critical accolades with his first novel from a small press, receives a six-figure advance from a major New York publishing house to write a new one. Now Lerner is back with a new novel, 10:04, which again focuses on an American writer trying to finish a creative work. Leaving the Atocha Station went on to become one of the most talked-about novels of the year, appearing on several best-books lists. He published his début, which centered on a young American poet on a fellowship in Madrid, with Coffee House Press and “didn’t think anyone would read it,” he says. When Ben Lerner produced his first novel Leaving the Atocha Station in 2011, he was already an acclaimed poet with three highly regarded collections of poetry to his name. ![]()
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