Renata Adler – författare

'I can't think of a living stylist I admire more than Renata Adler' ELIF BATUMAN'Luminously exact' NEW YORK TIMES'It was as though the novel had outstretched arms and I fell in' PARIS REVIEWWhen Speedboat burst on the scene in the late '70s it was like nothing readers had encountered before.It seemed to disregard the rules of the novel, but it wore its unconventionality with ease. Reading it was a pleasure of a new, unexpected kind. Above all, there was its voice: ambivalent, curious, wry, the voice of Jen Fain, a journalist negotiating the fraught landscape of contemporary urban America. Party guests, taxi drivers, brownstone dwellers, professors, journalists, presidents and debutantes fill these dispatches from the world as Jen finds it. A touchstone over the years for writers as different as David Foster Wallace and Elizabeth Hardwick, Speedboat returns to enthral a new generation of readers.A W&N Essential with an introduction by Hilton Als

'Perfect and prescient. A tremendously influential book' CHRIS KRAUS 'Plangent, mournful, brilliant' ARTFORUM'A bright kaleidoscope of a book' ANNE TYLERPitch Dark is a book about love.Kate Ennis is poised at a critical moment in an affair with a married man. The complications and contradictions pursue her from a house in rural Connecticut to a brownstone apartment in New York City, to a small island off the coast of Washington, to a pitch black night in backcountry Ireland.Composed in the style of Renata Adler's celebrated novel Speedboat and displaying her keen journalist's eye and mastery of language, both simple and sublime, Pitch Dark is a bold and astonishing work of art.A W&N Essential with an introduction by Muriel Spark

'Nobody writes better prose than Renata Adler' John Leonard, Harper's For decades Renata Adler - acclaimed author of Speedboat and Pitch Dark - has pursued a single urgent question: What is really going on here? As a staff writer at the New Yorker from 1963 to 2001, Adler reported on the defining political and social events of the time, from civil rights in Alabama to the wars in Biafra and Vietnam; from the Watergate scandal to the Clinton impeachment inquiry. She wrote brilliantly too about films (as chief film critic for the New York Times), books, television and pop music. In every essay, Adler captures the cultural zeitgeist, distrusts the accepted wisdom and writes stories that would otherwise go untold. After the Tall Timber brings together twenty of Adler's essays - including previously uncollected work - to showcase her non-fiction at its very best.Introduction by Michael Wolff