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Ben Lerner Reads “The Readers”
With Deborah Treisman June 21, 2026Illustration by The New Yorker; Source photograph by Momo Takahashi Save this story Save this story Save this story Save this story Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen
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Ben Lerner reads his story “The Readers,” from the June 29, 2026, issue of the magazine. Lerner is the author of nine books of poetry and fiction, including the novels “10:04,” “The Topeka School,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2020, and “Transcription,” which came out earlier this year. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2015.
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