世界上最糟糕的记者

the world’s worst journalist Ben Lerner warps the record By Hannah Gold Discussed in this essay: Transcription, by Ben Lerner. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 144 pages. $25. I n 2014, the year Ben Lerner’s second novel, 10:04, came out, I was a recent college graduate doing freelance reporting for digital-media companies. On the surface, my life seemed organized around the pursuit of truth, but I was simultaneously being drawn into the heady distortions of the digital sphere, spending more and more of my time online. My job required it, I reasoned. Social media was where I got ideas for stories and disseminated my own. …