The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.
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A Quiet Corner of the World
At the New York Times, Adelle Waldman, author of The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P., writes about how a national park in Montana left an indelible mark on her and her marriage: We were both intoxicated by the place, not…
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This Week in Short Fiction
As the story goes, nearly 100 years ago a group of Surrealist artists gathered together and put a new spin on an old parlor game called Consequences. The meeting resulted in their collective authorship of this phrase: “The/ exquisite/ corpse/…
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The Era of Celebrity Bookselling
The Colbert Bump helped propel Edan Lepucki‘s California to the third spot on the New York Times bestseller list. Lena Dunham’s endorsement helped sell Adelle Waldman‘s The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. Celebrity and celebrity endorsements have long played a role…
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The Love-Hate of Nathaniel P.
A “total Nathaniel P.” describes a certain kind of male literary intellectual, the opposite of the finance crowd who coined the phrase an insult. But among people who have actually read Adelle Waldman’s novel, The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.,…
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The Rumpus Interview with Adelle Waldman
Adelle Waldman talks to us about how to write “a convincing book about the inner life of a self-consciously intellectual male,” tackling the New York literary world in fiction, and love affairs with Brooklyn.