Ben Lerner Quotes About Contemporary Fiction

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  • I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more than perfectly bound blog posts or transcribed sitcoms.

    "Despair strikes me as eminently reasonable and boring". Interview with Tao Lin, believermag.com. September 2014.
  • Anyway I read more contemporary poetry than contemporary fiction so my mind goes first to a kind of crass "conceptualism" that repeats vanguard gestures of the past minus the politics and historical context.

    "Despair strikes me as eminently reasonable and boring". Interview with Tao Lin, believermag.com. September 2014.
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