Book Review: How reality and fiction bleed into each other

In Transcription , Ben Lerner’s narrator refers early on to a seminal moment in his life when he was taken to see Harvard’s glass flowers and began to develop the ability to view nature as culturally constructed and thereby engage with a natural world that had previously left him cold. This ‘new hinge’ in his looking is what he would come to call ‘fiction’, and it is precisely the ease