I actually enjoy looking at the work of this visual artist

One of the reasons that I really liked Ben Lerner's Leaving Atocha Station is that in the very first page he goes and stands in front of a painting at the Prado and thinks: "I had long worried that I was incapable of having a profound experience of art and I had trouble believing that anyone had, at least anyone I knew."

In general, I am not a highbrow c…