by Ben Lerner · 2025
A writer on his way to interview Thomas, his ninety-year-old former teacher and a towering translator and thinker, drifts between recorded talks, memory, family life and the fragile business of turning speech into text. The narrator's pandemic-era care for his young daughter and his time in Providence, Madrid and a hotel on the French-Swiss border shape a meditation on mentorship, listening and mediation.