KPR Presents: Ben Lerner & The Topeka School

By Kaye McIntyre

Published May 10, 2020 at 4:09 PM CDT

Week of May 10, 2020: Ben Lerner's The Topeka School was just named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. We revisit Kaye McIntyre's conversation with Topeka native and best-selling author Ben Lerner on this week's KPR Presents. This interview was originally broadcast on KPR Presents on October 13, 2019.

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Kaye McIntyre

Kaye starts her weekends the same way you do: with Weekend Edition, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, This American Life, and The Moth Radio Hour. She started at Kansas Public Radio in 2001; in 2006, she became the producer of our weekly public affairs program, KPR Presents, which changed its name in 2025 to Prairie Journal. In her spare time, she loves to read, travel, and attend theater.

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