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Ben lerner 10 04 summary
Ben lerner 10 04 summary








ben lerner 10 04 summary

Complaining indicated you weren’t foolish enough to believe that belonging to the co-op made you meaningfully less of a node in a capitalist network, that you understood the co-op’s population was largely made up of gentrifiers of one sort or another, and so on. Indeed, for most of the members I knew except Alex, who rarely complained about anything (“You do my complaining for me”), insulting the co-op was a mode of participation in its culture. Despite being frequently suspended for missing shifts while traveling, and de- spite complaining all the while about the self-righteousness of its members, its organizational idiocy, and the length of its checkout lines, I’d remained a member. Alex had been a member when I moved to Brooklyn and it wasn’t too far from my apartment so I’d joined. Most of the goods are environmentally friendly, at least comparatively, and, whenever possible, locally sourced. In exchange you get to shop at a store with less of a markup than a normal supermarket’s prices are kept down because labor is contributed by members nobody is extracting profit. Every able-bodied adult member works at the co-op for two hours and forty-five minutes every four weeks. The Park Slope Food Coop is the oldest and largest active food cooperative in the country, as they tell you at orientation. Two days after providing a sample of my reproductive cells for analysis, I was in the basement of the Park Slope Food Coop bagging the dried flesh of a tropical stone fruit, trying not to listen to one of my louder coworkers as she explained her decision to pull her first-grader out of a local public school and, despite the cost and the elaborate application process, place him in a well-known private one. Lerner is a professor of English at Brooklyn College.

ben lerner 10 04 summary

He has published three poetry collections: The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw, and Mean Free Path.

ben lerner 10 04 summary

His novel Leaving the Atocha Station, won the 2012 Believer Book Award, and excerpts from 10:04 have been awarded The Paris Review's Terry Southern Prize. The following is from MacArthur Grant winner Ben Lerner’s novel, 10:04.










Ben lerner 10 04 summary