Big year for my favourite authors inexplicably coming to Bristol! This time, it’s Ben Lerner, author of The Topeka School amongst others, here to discuss his new (as yet unread by me) novel Transcription. Inasmuch as he gets the chance to. Olivia Sudjic, another favourite author of mine, is the moderator for this, and whilst she is an excellent writer (do read Sympathy!) and I have a lovely conversation with her after the event, book talk moderation is not amongst her skills. A little more conversation, a little less opining, please. But fighting his way through the jet lag, Lerner is insightful in his own laconic way about the way he writes and it makes me all the more excited for Transcription.