In “Transcription,” Ben Lerner considers a famous father, a loyal protégé and a distant son, bound by devotion and separated by miscommunication.
TRANSCRIPTION, by Ben Lerner
Among a reporter’s greatest fears, along with misspelling a name or being duped by a source, is that their recording apparatus will fail during an interview. And yet some of the best, like the longtime New Yorker staff wr... [1970 chars]