Transcription by Ben Lerner audiobook review – a mediation on memory for the smartphone era
Actor Seth Numrich vividly captures the neurotic tendencies of a middle-aged man with a digital dependency, in an intense multilayered tale of family and storytellingWe meet the unnamed narrator of Transcription on a train to Providence, Rhode Island. He is going to interview his one-time mentor Thomas, a celebrated German writer and film-maker, who is 90 and who, owing to…
Actor Seth Numrich vividly captures the neurotic tendencies of a middle-aged man with a digital dependency, in an intense multilayered tale of family and storytellingWe meet the unnamed narrator of Transcription on a train to Providence, Rhode Island. He is going to interview his one-time mentor Thomas, a celebrated German writer and film-maker, who is 90 and who, owing to…
