Reading Other People’s Mail: Talking with Michelle Dean
Michelle Dean discusses Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion, literary legends, and the absence of Black writers from the narrative.
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Posts Tagged: Renata Adler
The House of Fiction Has Many Rooms: Talking with Sigrid Nunez
Sigrid Nunez discusses her seventh novel, The Friend, her fondness for writing about animals, and the ways the literary world has changed.
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HORN! REVIEWS: Pitch Dark
Start the outboard motor—it’s time to go island-hopping with Kate Ennis, the postmodern Penelope.
...moreRenata Adler: No Fearlessness
At Buzzfeed Books, a great, pithy interview with novelist and journalist Renata Adler, whose collection of nonfiction and journalism, After the Tall Timber, was released earlier this year.
...moreIt’s Okay that You Haven’t Read Finnegans Wake (Really)
Over at Hazlitt, Sarah Galo and Elon Green have cornered a handful of authors, from Renata Adler to Celeste Ng, into admitting their literary gaps, from Finnegans Wake to To Kill a Mockingbird. Something we should keep in mind is that there is more work produced every day than a single person can get to in […]
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The Rumpus Interview with George Hodgman
Editor and author George Hodgman talks about his new memoir, Bettyville, what makes for a good memoir, and returning to his hometown of Paris, Missouri from New York to take care of his aging mother.
...moreThe Millennial Generation’s Writer
In The New Republic, Anna Weiner discusses Renata Adler’s new boost in popularity among New York City’s young creative class: In the post-9/11 generation—a cohort caught between the promise of an economy that values creative work and the scarring, post-crash economic reality—[Adler] has, once again, found a small, devout audience.
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After the Tall Timber by Renata Adler
Lee Matalone reviews After the Tall Timber by Renata Adler today in Rumpus Books.
...moreThe Woman Who Did Not Burn Down New York
For Vice, Catherine Lacey sits down with Renata Adler to discuss Adler’s new nonfiction collection, After the Tall Timber.
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“Speedboat” and “Pitch Dark”, by Renata Adler
I have, I admit, no idea what Renata Adler’s Speedboat is about. Really, not the foggiest. But this is a very special sort of mystification, an unqualified – maybe even a purer – kind of no idea than my usual ‘what-the-fuck-is-going-on?’ kind of no idea. I have no idea what Speedboat is about not in […]
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