M.J. Franklin
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3,273 appearances
20 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 3d ago
M.J. Franklin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There's no middle there.
And I feel like Ben Lerner's work is mining the middle.
He's trying to find where it's neither true or untrue.
Yeah.
Or when something's so deeply fake, but still impactful and real when an interview is constructed, but that is the truth.
And I feel like he's doing that with language.
He's doing that with technology.
That's my unified theory.
And this is why I love a Ben Lerner book, because that's such a complicated idea to distill in fiction.
But then also, it's just an interesting story.
It's just an interesting story.
So those are a few ideas.
We could talk about this book all day.
It's kind of incredible how much conversation can come from a 130-page book.
But I think that's, for me, the genius of this book.
We have book recommendations, but before...
We pivot to that.
I have a question that I'm going to call, tell me one thing.
Tell me one takeaway, one thing that you want readers to absolutely know about this book.
Mine is a quote that I had, and it's the end of the first section, and it's just, you call this fiction, but it is more.
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