With The Topeka School Ben Lerner comes full circle
Viewing his latest novel as both the prequel to and the conclusion of his novel trilogy helped the celebrated author find a way to write it. Ben Lerner, the celebrated young poet and novelist in town for the Chicago Humanities Fest late last month, is said to have once apologized to an audience of poets for having even written a novel. Since then, Lerner"a 2015 MacArthur fellow for his po…