For this Pioneer Works event, Ben Lerner talks about how the instability of dialogue informed his latest novel, Transcription (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026), and the pros and cons of personal technology for youth growing up today in a conversation with New Yorker staff writer Alexandra Schwartz.
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