Dan Dixon

‘On a formal level, the book tells a story about writing as professional work, and how it can (or at least once could) happen in Australia with some success. It also wonders, both explicitly and through its form, what it means for literary writing to survive after what has, always unsatisfyingly, been called postmodernism.’

The sense that there exists a gap between language and the world is the theme to which Ben Lerner’s writing has most relentlessly returned.