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Jun 11, 2012 · Published in the print edition of the June 18, 2012, issue, with the headline “The Golden Vanity.” Ben Lerner will publish his latest collection of poetry, “ The Lights ,” in September.
- This Week in Fiction: Ben Lerner
Your story this week, “The Golden Vanity,” is about a young...
- This Week in Fiction: Ben Lerner
Your story this week, “The Golden Vanity,” is about a young writer, prone to anxiety and “false predicaments,” who has recently published a novel to “unexpected praise.” Afterward, he ...
Jun 14, 2012 · Authors are often confused with their characters, that much is hardly original, but Lerner kept this idea of blurred boundaries up throughout the story whether the palimpsest like moments as when the narrator sees several eras at once on a Brooklyn street or when he imagines fictional scenarios as if they’re real.
Feb 6, 2015 · In 10:04, Ben (like Lerner) is a poet with one published novel behind him, who is working on a new novel. Both Bens watch films projected onto the wall of their apartment; both held a residency at Marfa; both have written a story called ‘The Golden Vanity’ that was published in the New Yorker, and so on.
Jun 23, 2012 · In the Q&A, Lerner says: “The piece is concerned with raising questions about the relation between fact and fiction, activating those questions in peculiar ways—but the questions, not the answers, are what strike me as interesting.”
Apr 17, 2015 · The narrator (also named Ben), on the heels of a first novel that was a critical darling (not unlike Atocha ), has just received a six-figure second book deal on the strength of a New Yorker short story ( The Golden Vanity, which actually appears in the summer 2012 issue of the New Yorker and also appears in full in 10:04 ).
By Ben Lerner ~6500 words Note: A big round of applause to my friend Dominicus, who did a bang-up job on the four stories from the sci-fi issue. Merci beaucoup! I'm back from vacation now and ready as I'll ever be, so without further ado, let's move on to the latest critique. An obsessive-compulsive writer obsesses and compulses.
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