Transcription by Ben Lerner audiobook review – a mediation on memory for the smartphone era

Summary

Actor Seth Numrich vividly captures the neurotic tendencies of a middle-aged man with a digital dependency, in an intense multilayered tale of family and storytelling We meet the unnamed narrator of Transcription on a train to Providence, Rhode Island. He is going to interview his one-time mentor Thomas, a celebrated German writer and film-maker, who is 90 and who, owing to his age, probably won’t be interviewed again. The narrator confesses to his young daughter, Eva, that he is nervous about the meeting. Those nerves are replaced by panic when he gets to his hotel and drops his iPhone into…

Description from The Guardian.