What is really going on here? For decades Renata Adler has been asking and answering this question with unmatched urgency. In her essays and long-form journalism, she has captured the cultural zeitgeist, distrusted the accepted wisdom, and written stories that would otherwise go untold. As a staff w[...]
Winner of the Ernest Hemingway Prize for Best First Novel in 1976
It has been more than thirty-five years since Renata Adler's "Speedboat" charged through the literary establishment, blasting genre walls and pointing the way for a newly liberated way of writing. This unclassifiable work is simu[...]
""What's new. What else. What next. What's happened here.""
"Pitch Dark," Renata Adler's follow up to her prize winning book "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 critic[...]