Transcription by Ben Lerner Pluto press written in the aftermath of

written in the aftermath of the death of her husband

Instead of details of family and friends

Once a food writer for the New Statesman

and unexpectedly funny

Through my great-grandfather’s lived experience as an artisan

Transcription by Ben Lerner Pluto press written in the aftermath ofA writer returns to his college town, where he is to conduct what will be the final published interview with Thomas, his ninety year old mentor. But after he drops his smartphone in the hotel sink, he arrives at Thomas's house with no recording device a fact he is mysteriously unable to confess. What unfolds from this dreamlike circumstance is both a brilliant meditation on those technologies that enrich and impoverish our connections to each other,