Friday, April 4, 6 p.m. at Second Ward Foundation, Hudson
Me and my nephew Ben
My Pulitzer Prize-nominated nephew Ben Lerner joins me for a conversation about boys surviving adolescence and how we approached writing about that challenge, in my memoir Performance Anxiety and his novel The Topeka School.
reviewed in No Man Is an Island
"An Elegaic Tale
of the Cold War Past in Taiwan"
"...it is primarily in worldbuilding that the novel stands out. The world that Lerner summons up is remarkable precisely because he manages to make it feel so spectral and real at the same time."