Episode 156: Renata Adler

Published: Sept. 2, 2015, 5:14 p.m.

Renata Adler is a journalist, critic, and novelist. Her latest collection of nonfiction is After the Tall Timber.\n\n\u201cUnless you're going to be fairly definite, what's the point of writing?\u201d\n\nThanks to MailChimp, and Squarespace for sponsoring this week's episode.\n\nShow Notes:\nAdler on Longform\nAdler's New Yorker archive\n[7:00] I, Libertine (Theodore Sturgeon \u2022 Ballantine Books \u2022 1956)\n[8:00] After Tall Timber: Collected Nonfiction (Ballantine Books \u2022 2015)\n[9:00] "Letter from Selma" (New Yorker \u2022 Apr 1965)\n[9:00] "Fly Trans-love Airways" (New Yorker \u2022 Feb 1967)\n[15:00] "Letter from Israel" (New Yorker \u2022 Jun 1967) [sub req'd]\n[17:00] "Letter from Biafra" (New Yorker \u2022 Oct 1969) [sub req'd]\n[34:00] Adler's New York Times film reviews archive\n[47:00] "An American Original: Excerpts from Pat Moynihan's letters" (Steven Weisman \u2022 Vanity Fair \u2022 Oct 2010)\n[50:00] "The Perils of Pauline" (The New York Review of Books \u2022 Aug 1980)\n[1:08:00] "Two Trials" (New Yorker \u2022 June 1986) [sub req'd]\n[1:09:00] Reckless Disregard: Westmoreland v. CBS, et al; Sharon v. Time (Knopf \u2022 1986)\n[1:03:00] Gone: The Last Days of the New Yorker (Simon & Schuster \u2022 1999)\n[1:10:00] "Decoding the Starr Report" (Vanity Fair \u2022 Dec 1998)\n[1:19:00] Canaries in a Mineshaft: Essay on Politics and Media (St. Martin's Press \u2022 2001)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices