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You'll read it, then want to read it again * GQ *\u003cbr\u003eA Lerner novel is always an event * FT *\u003cbr\u003e[Poses] daunting questions about how we process information and what memory is * AnOther *\u003cbr\u003eA layered exploration of memory, masculinity and technology * Mail on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003eA powerfully distilled novel about fathers and sons, mortality and inheritance and the technologies shaping our lives * Bookseller *\u003cbr\u003eAt 144 pages, Ben Lerner's Transcription has a slightness that may surprise some of his admirers. The more I read, however, the more deliberate it felt: a novel about technology, kept short enough for even the most internet-addled mind to finish in an afternoon. The story is rather simple - a writer drops his phone in the sink just before what will become the last interview with his luddite mentor - yet Lerner turns this banal inciting incident into a brilliant philosophical meditation on what happens when we outsource our memories to our devices * Frieze *\u003cbr\u003eQuietly provocative and thoughtful * International Times *\u003cbr\u003eLerner combines fiction and criticism to postulate both a novel vision of the social possibilities of art and the artistic possibilities of socialising * Review31 *\u003cbr\u003eAs talky and thinky as a memory play, sweeping up Kafka, Covid, glass flowers and much else in its narrow, rushing stream, it's about how technology can sustain as well as stultify life... Smartphones have become so integral to our lives, really external hard drives to brains and souls, that how modern authors incorporate them into regular old paper books has become a kind of steeplechase. 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