La Brega - The Puerto Rican Experience in Eight Songs

The story appeared in The New Yorker in April of 2001 and was included in John Berger's collection, Here's Where We Meet. Ben Lerner: Why do you think this teacher comes to him as one of these few ghosts in these stories? LERNER: I think on the most basic level it's because Tyler is who he credits with teaching him how to write. It's that mixture of expression but also understanding storytelling is precisely communicating what can't be expressed in language.