Ark Audio

On this special anniversary edition of the Ark Audio Book club we have brought together the panel from the first ever episode, on Leaving the Atocha Station, to talk about Ben Lerner’s second novel 10:04. The story of an unnamed Ben Lerner-like New York author, working on a follow up to his well received Atocha Station-like first novel while juggling relationships, family, the spectres of death, technology and ecological disaster and the prospect of having a child with his best friend, all set within a baroque metafictional construction. The novel is a poetically crafted exploration of the differentness temporalities of art making and life living, and the attempt for ever-unattainable authenticity.  This episode features Alexander Buk-Sweinty, Magnus Friis, Giovanna Alesandro and is hosted and produced by Macon Holt.