Ben Lerner is a highly-acclaimed man of letters who’s written four novels about the daily life of a highly-acclaimed man of letters.
In these novels, the first-person protagonist (who is usually named Adam Gordon) wins awards, gets huge publishing contracts, goes to residencies, and sleeps with hot women—all while worrying that he’s an imposter or fraud, and that he’s really just pretending to be a guy who’s got an authentic relationship to art.
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