Ben Lerner is the author of three books of poetry—The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw, and Mean Free Path—and the novel Leaving the Atocha Station, which was named one of the best books of 2011 by The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Boston Globe, New York Magazine, and many others. He teaches in the writing program at Brooklyn College.
Books
A Schoolboy’s Diary and Other Stories
Walser is the champion of the small, the insignificant, and the overlooked. This original collection shows just how much breadth, though, he brought to his characteristic subject, ranging from some of his very first works, the “Fritz Kocher” sequence—the “collected works” of a boy who died young—to tales of the Swiss countryside, love triangles, and memoirs of his WWI–era military service.