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Toronto Star Online, April 8, 2012
...at Night ( http://mkimarnold.tumblr.com), which reads like the welcome and unexpected sequel to (U.S. author) Renata Adler's Speedboat (1976), or the off-the-cuff Beatles musings by Devin McKinney, who wrote the great Beatles book Magic Circles (...
New York Post, March 16, 2012
...make a pun or a joke about it.'"Nobody in the audience was impolitic enough to bring up Renata Adler's scathing critique of Kael's work, which created a furor who it appeared two years ago in the New York Review of Books."What can you say of...
The L Magazine, February 9, 2012
...Heroines, and in that book I also reference some pretty revolutionary fictional notebooks: Elizabeth Hardwick’s Sleepless Nights, Renata Adler’s Speedboat, the entire oeuvre of Bhanu Kapil, including her recent Schizophrene. Whose ghostwritten...
The Hindu, December 3, 2011
...Kellow, she gave him the finger. Well, there's plenty more (such as an analysis of the famous Renata Adler NYRB takedown of Kael) where all this comes from, so not only will you not be disappointed with Kellow's intrepid research, you'll also be rewarded...
Charleston Post and Courier, November 17, 2011
...editors at The New Yorker. Kael had her critics, not the least of whom was New Yorker colleague Renata Adler, who, in a poison pen review, described Kael's 1980 collection, "When the Lights Go Down," as "jarringly, piece by piece, line by line, and...
New York Magazine, November 7, 2011
...an inevitability for a critic of Wood's stature: Lethem opens his piece with a quote from the Renata Adler's New York Review of Book 's takedown of Pauline Kae l (which is a fun read!). Besides, it's not fair that Michiko Kakutani, of all book critics...
Daily Caller, November 6, 2011
...shortly). “Lucking Out” has character sketches of journalists who were well-known in the 1970s, names like Lester Bangs, Renata Adler, Clay Felker, Nat Hentoff and The New Yorker’s William Shawn, but while Wolcott can effortlessly drill to their...
The L Magazine, February 9, 2012
...Heroines, and in that book I also reference some pretty revolutionary fictional notebooks: Elizabeth Hardwick’s Sleepless Nights, Renata Adler’s Speedboat, the entire oeuvre of Bhanu Kapil, including her recent Schizophrene. Whose ghostwritten...
American Spectator, February 9, 2012
...So Bad?," included in Schwartz's anthology. Not long after, she was mugged by fellow film critic Renata Adler in the New York Review of Books , who accused Kael of " ad hominem brutality and intimidation" and for "laying down a remarkably trivial and...
Guardian.co.uk, January 25, 2012
...in an age when Amazon customer reviews threaten to make Brian Sewells of us all. I especially like Renata Adler's observation about the temptation "to pretend that each day's text is, after all a crisis", but it is Randall Jarrell's supportive reference...
Seth's Blog, October 8, 2011
...criticism of The New Yorker , see the great book Gone : The Last Days of The New Yorker by Renata Adler . Thanks to Dave Lull...
biblioklept, June 23, 2011
...I finished David Foster Wallace's The Pale King the other night (don't worry---I know that there's been a terrible shortage of coverage for this obscure book, so I'll post a review pretty soon). The Pale King unfolds as a series of fragments, some...
biblioklept, June 23, 2011
...to where Kosinski goes in this book, which is better than everything else he ever did combined.” Speedboat , Renata Adler Telegraphed in bristling, angular prose, Speedboat unwinds as a series of seemingly unrelated vignettes, japes, and jokes...
The Paris Review, June 15, 2011
...been writing in The New Yorker lately. I love V. S. Naipaul and the novel Pitch Dark by Renata Adler. I also love Wong Kar-Wai, and I just now found, through your guys’ recommendation, Chris Marker. I’m traveling so I’m not reading; my suitemate...
