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Born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1979, Ben Lerner is the author of three books of poetry The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw, and Mean Free Path. He has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the Northern California Book Award, a Fulbright Scholar in Spain, and the recipient of a 2010-2011 Howard Foundation Fellowship. In 2011 he became the first American to win the Preis der Stadt Münster für Internationale Poesie. Leaving the Atocha Station is his first novel.
Finalist for the 2013 James Tait Black Prize in fiction
Runner-Up for the 2013 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature
Winner of The 2012 Believer Book Award
Finalist for the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Art Seidenbaum
Award for First Fiction)
Finalist for The New York Public Library's 2012 Young Lions Fiction
Award
Wall Street Journal’s Top 10 Fiction of 2011
The New Yorker’s Best of the Year in Culture 2011
Newsweek/Daily Beast’s Best of 2011
The Boston Globe’s Best of 2011
The Guardian’s Best Books of 2011
Shelf Unbound’s Top Ten of 2011
New Stateman’s Best Books of 2011
The Huffington Post "Yet Another Year-End List"
The Guardian, "book I wish I'd published" by Canongate publisher
Jamie Byng
Work in Progress, "FSG's Favorite Book of 2012"
[A] subtle, sinuous, and very funny first novel. . . . [Leaving
the Atocha Station] has a beguiling mixture of lightness and
weight. There are wonderful sentences and jokes on almost every
page. Lerner is attempting to capture something that most
conventional novels, with their cumbersome caravans of plot and
scene and conflict,” fail to do: the drift of thought, the
unmomentous passage of undramatic life. . . .”James Wood, The New
Yorker
"Ben Lerner's remarkable first novel . . . is a bildungsroman and
meditation and slacker tale fused by a precise, reflective and
darkly comic voice. It is also a revealing study of what it's like
to be a young American abroad . . . Lerner is concerned with
ineffability, but Adam Gordon (and the author) fight back with more
than words . . . The ultimate product of Gordon's success is the
novel itself." -Gary Sernovitz, The New York Times Book Review
One of the funniest (and truest) novels I know of by a writer of
his generation. . . . [A] dazzlingly good novel.”Lorin Stein, The
New York Review of Books
Flip, hip, smart, and very funny . . . [R]eading it was unlike any
other novel-reading experience I’ve had for a long time.” Maureen
Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross”
[Leaving the Atocha Station is] hilarious and cracklingly
intelligent, fully alive and original in every sentence, and abuzz
with the feel of our late-late-modern moment. . . . Jonathan
Franzen in The Guardian’s Books of the Year 2011
"[A] remarkable first novel . . . intensely and unusually
brilliant."The Guardian
"Utterly charming. Lerner’s self-hating, lying, overmedicated,
brilliant fool of a hero is a memorable character, and his voice
speaks with a music distinctly and hilariously all his own.” Paul
Auster
Leaving the Atocha Station is a marvelous novel, not least because
of the magical way that it reverses the postmodernist spell,
transmuting a fraudulent figure into a fully dimensional and
compelling character.”The Wall Street Journal
"One of the strengths of Leaving the Atocha Station is how it
absorbs these radical impulses without compromising narrative shape
and speed...More Important, however, this blendingof perception
and politicscomes right out of how Lerner sees the world in real
life."Electric Literature
Lerner’s prose, at once precise and swerving, propels the book in
lieu of a plot and creates an experience of something [main
character Adam] Gordon criticizes more heavily plotted books of
failing to capture: the texture of time as it passed, life’s white
machine.”The Daily Beast
[A] noteworthy debut . . . . Lerner has fun with the interplay
between the unreliable spoken word and subtleties in speech and
body language, capturing the struggle of a young artist unsure of
the meaning or value of his art. . . . Lerner succeeds in drawing
out the problems inherent in art, expectation, and
communication.”Publishers Weekly
Ben Lerner’s first novel, coming on the heels of three outstanding
poetry collections, is a darkly hilarious examination of just how
self-conscious, miserable, and absurd one man can be. . . .
Lerner’s writing [is] beautiful, funny, and revelatory.”Deb Olin
Unferth, Bookforum
. . . Leaving the Atocha Station is as much an apologia for poetry
as it is a novel. Lerner’s ability to accomplish both projects at
once is a marvel. His sense of narrative forward motion and his
penchant for rumination are kept in constant competition with one
another, so that neither is allowed to keep the upper hand for
long. Leaving the Atocha Station is a novel for poets, liars, and
equivocatorsthat is, for aspects of us all. It is also a poem,
dedicated to the gulf between self and selfego and alter ego,
true me” and false me,” present self and outgrown past.”Open
Letters Monthly
The first novel from Ben Lerner, a finalist for the National Book
Award in poetry, explores with humor and depth what everyone
assumes is OK to overlook. . . . Ben Lerner’s phrases meander,
unconcerned tourists, taking exotic day trips to surprising clauses
before returning to their familiar hostels of subject and
predicate. . . . [A]n honest, exciting account of what it’s like to
be a fairly regular guy in fairly regular circumstances . . . [and]
somehow it’s more incredible, and more modern a dilemma, than the
explosives.”Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Leaving the Atocha Station is the kind of book that feels lived
rather than composeda post-MFA The Catcher in the Rye for
professional adolescents. When I finished reading the novel, I
wanted to know what Gordon was up to and had to resist the urge to
look for him on Facebook and Twitter, which is a shame. I could
have given his résumé a boost with an endorsement on LinkedIn."San
Diego CityBeat
I admire Ben’s poetry, but I love to death his new book, Leaving
the Atocha Station. Ben Lerner’s novel . . . chronicles the
endemic disease of our time: the difficulty of feeling. . .’ [A]
significant book.”David Shields, Los Angeles Review of Books
In his adroitly interiorized first novel . . . Lerner makes this
tale of a nervous young artist abroad profoundly evocative by using
his protagonist’s difficulties with Spanish, fear of creativity,
and mental instability to cleverly, seductively, and hilariously
investigate the nature of language and storytelling, veracity and
fraud. As Adam’s private fears are dwarfed by terrorist train
attacks, Lerner casts light on how we must constantly rework the
narrative of our lives to survive and flourish.”Donna Seaman,
Booklist
"Like Lerner’s debut, Leaving the Atocha Station, this is an
extremely funny book, the narrator’s neuroses providing most of the
laughs."The Guardian
"Leaving the Atocha Station is, among other things, a
character-driven page-turner’ and a concisely definitive study of
the actual” versus the virtual’ as applied to relationships,
language, poetry, experience. It’s funny and affecting and as
meticulous and knowing” in its execution of itself, I feel, as
Ben’s poetry collections are.”Tao Lin, The Believer
Lerner, himself an Ivy League poet and National Book Award
finalist who once spent time in Madrid on a prestigious fellowship,
wrestles well with absence as an event. . . . The combination of
tension and languor, grounded by sensual details, recalls Javier
Marías.”Time Out New York
[Leaving the Atocha Station is remarkable for its ability to be
simultaneously warm, ruminative, heart-breaking, and funny.”Shelf
Unbound
Perhaps it’s because there’s so much skepticism surrounding the
novel-by-poet that, when it’s successful, it’s such a cause for
celebration. Some prime examples of monumental novels by poets and
about poets (but not just for poets) are Boris Pasternak’s Doctor
Zhivago, Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives, and Rainer Maria
Rilke’s The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. Now, let us
celebrate another of their rank: Ben Lerner’s Leaving the Atocha
Station.”The Jewish Daily Forward
"An extraordinary novel about the intersections of art and reality
in contemporary life." John Ashbery
Acclaimed poet Ben Lerner’s first novel is a fascinating and often
brilliant investigation of the distance (or the communication)
between experience and art. . . . Rendering its subject from just
about every angle, Leaving the Atocha Station becomes something
close to highly self-aware, to something poetic.” Zyzzyva
Last night I started Ben Lerner’s novel Leaving the Atocha
Station.’’ By page three it was clear I was either staying up all
night or putting the novel away until the weekend. I’m still angry
with myself for having slept.” Stacy Schiff
"Impenetrable Screen is at times quite poignant, and Atocha Station
is canny and wickedly funny throughout. . . . [T]hese works too
argue for themselves as achievements, talismanic keys attaining
some degree of access to 'life’s white machine' and 'desire’s
buzz.'” Full Stop, "Narcissus and Ego: Poets Try the Novel"
"The writing -fluid, sharp, and fast- pulls you along, rarely
stumbling. Lerner understands human interaction with unusual
clarity and for the egotistical Adam, every conversation is a
sparring match. . .[T]he effect is striking and, unexpectedly
comforting."-Iberosphere
"Linguistically, Leaving the Atocha Station is one of the most
remarkable books I have read this year. Lerner is a poet, but this
isn't a "poetic novel", by which I mean the kind of work where
mellifluous description acts as a kind of literary toupee. Lerner's
poetry manifests itself in elegantly stilted grammar, in
contradiction and self-cancellation, is painfully self-aware
self-mirroring and especially in misunderstanding ... The camber of
Adam's thoughts is conveyed with astonishing grace."The
Scotsman
"I did love this debut novel by a young poet . . . which takes
place at the time of the 2004 Madrid subway bombings and channels
W.G. Sebald in [a] way that's far more interesting, for my money,
than another Sebaldian homage published the same year." Publishers
Weekly
"I was both amused and appalled by the anti-hero of Ben Lerner's
Leaving the Atocha Station"The Guardian
"In his first novel,Leaving the Atocha Station, Lerner makes a kind
of refined comedy out of his grad student narrator's gnawing sense
of his own inauthenticity."The New Statesman
"The sharpest and funniest novel I read this year."The Daily Mail,
chosen by Craig Brown
"I really liked Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station. . . .It is
incredibly smart. It's terrifying how smart this author is."Miami
Herald, "What are you reading now?" with Jess Walter, author of
Beautiful Ruins
"The prose is mesmerizing...a fairly astonishing large achievement
of poetic voice and diction."Circular Breathing
"[An] impressively verisimilar account of ennui and alienation
in...our post-9/11 world."Bookriot, "Read This Then That"
"Leaving the Atocha Station gets to the heart of this fact of our
existence. It captures the complex relationship we have with art,
with faith, with love, and with life, and it does so with wit,
honesty and grace."The Huffington Post
"Leaving the Atocha Station, an American-abroad novel by the poet
Ben Lerner, reaches 'for what cannot be disclosed or confessed in
narrative."The New York Times, mention in "The Wayward Essay"
"The two achievements that push Leaving the Atocha Station into
must-read territory are its antihero narrator and the almost
kinetic nature of its prose...[T]he author fills the pages with an
electric, commanding prose that turns into everything the reader
needs."Verbicide
"'In my continued, mostly futile, campaign to offer various
children, nieces and nephews an alternative to vampires and
wizards,' he wrote, 'I'll be giving...Ben Lerner's smart,
ruminating novel, Leaving the Atocha Station...'"The New York
Times, "Inside the List"
"That monster of overprivilege and overeducation ends up being
genuinely sympathetic, and that a book that has serious questions
to ask about the place of art in our virtually anesthetized world
is consistently laugh-out-loud funny, are testaments to Ben
Lerner's dazzling prose, which switches effortlessly from deadpan
to ironic to salty to tragic and back again. "The Millions, "A
Year in Reading: Paul Murray"
"I loved Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station. It fits into the
category I like to call 'the perfect little novel.'"Buzzfeed, "The
Best Books We Read in 2012"
"Lerner is a multi-form talent who crosses genres, modes, and media
to represent a leading edge of contemporary writing."Contemporary
Literature, interview with Lerner
In Leaving the Atocha Station the light is at first humor, of
which self-deprecation and compulsive lying are the materials. . .
. Lerner suggests that hope lies in the excision of
self-consciousness, a less partial view of oneself.”Los Angeles
Review of Books,Imperfect Strollers: Teju Cole, Ben Lerner, and
W.G. Sebald"
"Indeed, we've often found ourselves at a loss to explain why this
book is so wonderful . . . Shields gets it: the book 'chronicles
the endemic disease of our time: the difficulty of
feeling.'"Flavorwire,Imperfect Strollers: Teju Cole, Ben Lerner,
and W.G. Sebald"
Finalist for the 2013 James Tait Black Prize in fiction
Runner-Up for the 2013 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature
Winner of The 2012 Believer Book Award
Finalist for the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Art Seidenbaum
Award for First Fiction)
Finalist for The New York Public Library's 2012 Young Lions Fiction
Award
Wall Street Journal’s Top 10 Fiction of 2011
The New Yorker’s Best of the Year in Culture 2011
Newsweek/Daily Beast’s Best of 2011
The Boston Globe’s Best of 2011
The Guardian’s Best Books of 2011
Shelf Unbound’s Top Ten of 2011
New Stateman’s Best Books of 2011
The Huffington Post "Yet Another Year-End List"
The Guardian, "book I wish I'd published" by Canongate publisher
Jamie Byng
Work in Progress, "FSG's Favorite Book of 2012"
“[A] subtle, sinuous, and very funny first novel. . . . [Leaving
the Atocha Station] has a beguiling mixture of lightness and
weight. There are wonderful sentences and jokes on almost every
page. Lerner is attempting to capture something that most
conventional novels, with their cumbersome caravans of plot and
scene and “conflict,” fail to do: the drift of thought, the
unmomentous passage of undramatic life. . . .”—James Wood, The New
Yorker
"Ben Lerner's remarkable first novel . . . is a bildungsroman and
meditation and slacker tale fused by a precise, reflective and
darkly comic voice. It is also a revealing study of what it's like
to be a young American abroad . . . Lerner is concerned with
ineffability, but Adam Gordon (and the author) fight back with more
than words . . . The ultimate product of Gordon's success is the
novel itself." -Gary Sernovitz, The New York Times Book Review
“One of the funniest (and truest) novels I know of by a writer of
his generation. . . . [A] dazzlingly good novel.”—Lorin Stein, The
New York Review of Books
“Flip, hip, smart, and very funny . . . [R]eading it was unlike any
other novel-reading experience I’ve had for a long time.” —Maureen
Corrigan, NPR’s “Fresh Air with Terry Gross”
“[Leaving the Atocha Station is] hilarious and cracklingly
intelligent, fully alive and original in every sentence, and abuzz
with the feel of our late-late-modern moment. . . . —Jonathan
Franzen in The Guardian’s Books of the Year 2011
"[A] remarkable first novel . . . intensely and unusually
brilliant."—The Guardian
"Utterly charming. Lerner’s self-hating, lying, overmedicated,
brilliant fool of a hero is a memorable character, and his voice
speaks with a music distinctly and hilariously all his own.” —Paul
Auster
“Leaving the Atocha Station is a marvelous novel, not least because
of the magical way that it reverses the postmodernist spell,
transmuting a fraudulent figure into a fully dimensional and
compelling character.”—The Wall Street Journal
"One of the strengths of Leaving the Atocha Station is how it
absorbs these radical impulses without compromising narrative shape
and speed...More Important, however, this blending—of perception
and politics—comes right out of how Lerner sees the world in real
life."—Electric Literature
“Lerner’s prose, at once precise and swerving, propels the book in
lieu of a plot and creates an experience of something [main
character Adam] Gordon criticizes more heavily plotted books of
failing to capture: “the texture of time as it passed, life’s white
machine.”—The Daily Beast
“[A] noteworthy debut . . . . Lerner has fun with the interplay
between the unreliable spoken word and subtleties in speech and
body language, capturing the struggle of a young artist unsure of
the meaning or value of his art. . . . Lerner succeeds in drawing
out the problems inherent in art, expectation, and
communication.”—Publishers Weekly
“Ben Lerner’s first novel, coming on the heels of three outstanding
poetry collections, is a darkly hilarious examination of just how
self-conscious, miserable, and absurd one man can be. . . .
Lerner’s writing [is] beautiful, funny, and revelatory.”—Deb Olin
Unferth, Bookforum
“. . . Leaving the Atocha Station is as much an apologia for poetry
as it is a novel. Lerner’s ability to accomplish both projects at
once is a marvel. His sense of narrative forward motion and his
penchant for rumination are kept in constant competition with one
another, so that neither is allowed to keep the upper hand for
long. Leaving the Atocha Station is a novel for poets, liars, and
equivocators—that is, for aspects of us all. It is also a poem,
dedicated to the gulf between self and self–ego and alter ego,
“true me” and “false me,” present self and outgrown past.”—Open
Letters Monthly
“The first novel from Ben Lerner, a finalist for the National Book
Award in poetry, explores with humor and depth what everyone
assumes is OK to overlook. . . . Ben Lerner’s phrases meander,
unconcerned tourists, taking exotic day trips to surprising clauses
before returning to their familiar hostels of subject and
predicate. . . . [A]n honest, exciting account of what it’s like to
be a fairly regular guy in fairly regular circumstances . . . [and]
somehow it’s more incredible, and more modern a dilemma, than the
explosives.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Leaving the Atocha Station is the kind of book that feels lived
rather than composed—a post-MFA The Catcher in the Rye for
professional adolescents. When I finished reading the novel, I
wanted to know what Gordon was up to and had to resist the urge to
look for him on Facebook and Twitter, which is a shame. I could
have given his résumé a boost with an endorsement on LinkedIn."—San
Diego CityBeat
“I admire Ben’s poetry, but I love to death his new book, Leaving
the Atocha Station. Ben Lerner’s novel . . . `chronicles the
endemic disease of our time: the difficulty of feeling. . .’ [A]
significant book.”—David Shields, Los Angeles Review of Books
“In his adroitly interiorized first novel . . . Lerner makes this
tale of a nervous young artist abroad profoundly evocative by using
his protagonist’s difficulties with Spanish, fear of creativity,
and mental instability to cleverly, seductively, and hilariously
investigate the nature of language and storytelling, veracity and
fraud. As Adam’s private fears are dwarfed by terrorist train
attacks, Lerner casts light on how we must constantly rework the
narrative of our lives to survive and flourish.”—Donna Seaman,
Booklist
"Like Lerner’s debut, Leaving the Atocha Station, this is an
extremely funny book, the narrator’s neuroses providing most of the
laughs."–The Guardian
"Leaving the Atocha Station is, among other things, a
character-driven `page-turner’ and a concisely definitive study of
the “actual” versus the `virtual’ as applied to relationships,
language, poetry, experience. It’s funny and affecting and as
meticulous and “knowing” in its execution of itself, I feel, as
Ben’s poetry collections are.”—Tao Lin, The Believer
“Lerner, himself an Ivy League poet and National Book Award
finalist who once spent time in Madrid on a prestigious fellowship,
wrestles well with absence as an event. . . . The combination of
tension and languor, grounded by sensual details, recalls Javier
Marías.”—Time Out New York
“[Leaving the Atocha Station is remarkable for its ability to be
simultaneously warm, ruminative, heart-breaking, and funny.”—Shelf
Unbound
“Perhaps it’s because there’s so much skepticism surrounding the
novel-by-poet that, when it’s successful, it’s such a cause for
celebration. Some prime examples of monumental novels by poets and
about poets (but not just for poets) are Boris Pasternak’s Doctor
Zhivago, Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives, and Rainer Maria
Rilke’s The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. Now, let us
celebrate another of their rank: Ben Lerner’s Leaving the Atocha
Station.”—The Jewish Daily Forward
"An extraordinary novel about the intersections of art and reality
in contemporary life." —John Ashbery
“Acclaimed poet Ben Lerner’s first novel is a fascinating and often
brilliant investigation of the distance (or the communication)
between experience and art. . . . Rendering its subject from just
about every angle, Leaving the Atocha Station becomes something
close to highly self-aware, to something poetic.” —Zyzzyva
“Last night I started Ben Lerner’s novel “Leaving the Atocha
Station.’’ By page three it was clear I was either staying up all
night or putting the novel away until the weekend. I’m still angry
with myself for having slept.” —Stacy Schiff
"Impenetrable Screen is at times quite poignant, and Atocha Station
is canny and wickedly funny throughout. . . . [T]hese works too
argue for themselves as achievements, talismanic keys attaining
some degree of access to 'life’s white machine' and 'desire’s
buzz.'” —Full Stop, "Narcissus and Ego: Poets Try the Novel"
"The writing -fluid, sharp, and fast- pulls you along, rarely
stumbling. Lerner understands human interaction with unusual
clarity and for the egotistical Adam, every conversation is a
sparring match. . .[T]he effect is striking and, unexpectedly
comforting."-Iberosphere
"Linguistically, Leaving the Atocha Station is one of the most
remarkable books I have read this year. Lerner is a poet, but this
isn't a "poetic novel", by which I mean the kind of work where
mellifluous description acts as a kind of literary toupee. Lerner's
poetry manifests itself in elegantly stilted grammar, in
contradiction and self-cancellation, is painfully self-aware
self-mirroring and especially in misunderstanding ... The camber of
Adam's thoughts is conveyed with astonishing grace."—The
Scotsman
"I did love this debut novel by a young poet . . . which takes
place at the time of the 2004 Madrid subway bombings and channels
W.G. Sebald in [a] way that's far more interesting, for my money,
than another Sebaldian homage published the same year." —Publishers
Weekly
"I was both amused and appalled by the anti-hero of Ben Lerner's
Leaving the Atocha Station"—The Guardian
"In his first novel,Leaving the Atocha Station, Lerner makes a kind
of refined comedy out of his grad student narrator's gnawing sense
of his own inauthenticity."—The New Statesman
"The sharpest and funniest novel I read this year."—The Daily Mail,
chosen by Craig Brown
"I really liked Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station. . . .It is
incredibly smart. It's terrifying how smart this author is."—Miami
Herald, "What are you reading now?" with Jess Walter, author of
Beautiful Ruins
"The prose is mesmerizing...a fairly astonishing large achievement
of poetic voice and diction."—Circular Breathing
"[An] impressively verisimilar account of ennui and alienation
in...our post-9/11 world."—Bookriot, "Read This Then That"
"Leaving the Atocha Station gets to the heart of this fact of our
existence. It captures the complex relationship we have with art,
with faith, with love, and with life, and it does so with wit,
honesty and grace."—The Huffington Post
"Leaving the Atocha Station, an American-abroad novel by the poet
Ben Lerner, reaches 'for what cannot be disclosed or confessed in
narrative."—The New York Times, mention in "The Wayward Essay"
"The two achievements that push Leaving the Atocha Station into
must-read territory are its antihero narrator and the almost
kinetic nature of its prose...[T]he author fills the pages with an
electric, commanding prose that turns into everything the reader
needs."—Verbicide
"'In my continued, mostly futile, campaign to offer various
children, nieces and nephews an alternative to vampires and
wizards,' he wrote, 'I'll be giving...Ben Lerner's smart,
ruminating novel, Leaving the Atocha Station...'"—The New York
Times, "Inside the List"
"That monster of overprivilege and overeducation ends up being
genuinely sympathetic, and that a book that has serious questions
to ask about the place of art in our virtually anesthetized world
is consistently laugh-out-loud funny, are testaments to Ben
Lerner's dazzling prose, which switches effortlessly from deadpan
to ironic to salty to tragic and back again. "—The Millions, "A
Year in Reading: Paul Murray"
"I loved Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station. It fits into the
category I like to call 'the perfect little novel.'"—Buzzfeed, "The
Best Books We Read in 2012"
"Lerner is a multi-form talent who crosses genres, modes, and media
to represent a leading edge of contemporary writing."—Contemporary
Literature, interview with Lerner
“In Leaving the Atocha Station the light is at first humor, of
which self-deprecation and compulsive lying are the materials. . .
. Lerner suggests that hope lies in the excision of
self-consciousness, a less partial view of oneself.”—Los Angeles
Review of Books,“Imperfect Strollers: Teju Cole, Ben Lerner, and
W.G. Sebald"
"Indeed, we've often found ourselves at a loss to explain why this
book is so wonderful . . . Shields gets it: the book 'chronicles
the endemic disease of our time: the difficulty of
feeling.'"—Flavorwire,“Imperfect Strollers: Teju Cole, Ben Lerner,
and W.G. Sebald"
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