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Jen Fain is a journalist negotiating the fraught landscape of 1970s
New York. Party guests, taxi drivers, brownstone dwellers,
professors, journalists, presidents, and debutantes fill these
dispatches from the world as she finds it. Simultaneously novel,
memoir, commonplace book, confession, and critique - Speedboat is
funny, disturbing, cutting, brilliant unlike anything that had come
before. Since it burst onto the scene in the 1970s, it has
enthralled generations of readers and been a touchstone for writers
including David Foster Wallace, Claudia Rankine and Jenny Offill.
With an introduction by Hilton Als
"What's new. What else. What next. What's happened here." Pitch
Dark, Renata Adler's follow-up to her prizewinning novel Speedboat,
is a book of questions. It is also a book of false starts, red
herrings, misunderstandings, and all-too-fleeting revelations. Kate
Ennis is poised at a critical moment in her affair with a married
lover, and moments (conversations, things unsaid,
misunderstandings) of that fraught relationship reverberate
throughout the novel, following Kate from her house in rural
Connecticut and her New York City brownstone apartment, to a small
island off the coast of Washington, and to an utterly dark road in
a remote corner of Ireland. Told in Adler's celebrated fragmented
style, and constructed from the bare-bones language of everyday
life, Pitch Dark transcends its parts to come to the kind of wisdom
achievable only after a relentless quest.
From a legendary journalist and star writer at "The New Yorker" --
one of the most revered institutions in publishing -- an insider's
look at the magazine's tumultuous yet glorious years under the
direction of the enigmatic William Shawn.
Renata Adler went to work at "The New Yorker" in 1963 and
immediately became part of the circle close to editor William
Shawn, a man so mysterious that no two biographies of him seem to
be about the same person. Now Adler, herself an unrivaled literary
force, offers her brilliant take on the man -- and the myth that is
"The New Yorker" -- disputing recent memoirs by Lillian Ross and
Ved Mehta along the way.
With her lucid prose, meticulous eye for detail, and genuine love
of "The New Yorker, " Adler re-creates thirty years in its history
and depicts Shawn as a man of robust common sense, amazing
industry, and editorial genius, who nurtured innumerable major
talents (and egos) to produce a magazine that was -- and remains --
unique. Her ensemble cast -- all involved in legendary friendships,
feuds, and love affairs -- includes Edmund Wilson, S. N. Behrman,
Brendan Gill, Calvin Trillin, Dwight MacDonald, Donald Barthelme,
Hannah Arendt, Pauline Kael, S. I. Newhouse, Robert Gottlieb, Tina
Brown, and practically everyone of note in and around "The New
Yorker."
Above and beyond the fascinating literary anecdotes, however,
Adler's is a striking narrative that follows the weakening of
Shawn's hold over the magazine he loved, his reluctant attempts to
find a successor, and the coup by which he was ultimately
overthrown. It is a wonderful piece of reporting, full of real-life
drama of Shakespearean dimensions, which Shawn himself surely would
have loved.
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The 60s: The Story of a Decade (Paperback)
The New Yorker Magazine; Edited by Henry Finder; Introduction by David Remnick; Contributions by Renata Adler, Hannah Arendt
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