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You Call This Fiction, But It is More Ben Lerner’s Transcription Lest I sound like just another gay guy who heard of Ben Lerner via Lorde’s Instagram story last week (“No living writer has affected me more”, the singer wrote on April 14th), let me set the record straight by saying that actually I’ve been reading him since I was sixteen, thank you very much. Lerner was the writer that first introduced me to literary criticism (in his extraordinary monograph The Hatred of Poe

Zara Boon Being mixed race is a strange experience. Not being one culture or another, being both, being neither, swinging between feeling like you belong everywhere and then that you belong nowhere. The micro aggressive comments, the racial ambiguity, the ability to blend your cultures—I could (and have) gone on for ages about it. Here's what I've settled on: there is no way to separate the two sides of my identity. I am both of them, not a cake to be split evenly. And, being