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Adler, Renata was born on October 19, 1938 in Milan, Italy. Daughter of Frederick L. and Erna (Strauss) Adler.
(From Library Journal An extraordinary coincidence occurre...)
From Library Journal An extraordinary coincidence occurred recently when two major libel cases involving famous military men and the American pressU.S. General William Westmoreland versus CBS and Israeli General Ariel Sharon versus Time magazinewere tried in the same courthouse in Manhattan at the same time. Adler, an experienced journalist as well as holder of a law degree, offers a penetrating analysis of the broadest ramifications of the two cases, including the disturbing conclusion that the press and the legal establishment in each instance placed their own interests above the search for the truth. This important book, which first appeared in the New Yorker , deserves the widest possible audience. Kenneth F. Kister, Pinnellas Park P.L., Fla. Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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(These fourteen pieces, all of them written between 1962 a...)
These fourteen pieces, all of them written between 1962 and 1968 by one of the most penetrating of the new generation of The New Yorker journalists, cover a staggering variety of subjects: among them the Selma March, teen-age waifs on the Sunset Strip, group therapy, a radicalist political convention, a report from Israel in the midst of the Six-Day War, peace groups, the lyrics and sounds of contemporary popular music, and book reviews and literary essays on such figures as Genet, the "New Reviewers" and Nathalie Sarraute. To each of these subjects Miss Adler brings a discriminating eye, a razor wit so sharp that the victim often doesn't realize he's been deeply cut, a true but selective ear and a graceful way of explaining even the most complex issues or events. Miss Adler is an incisive observer of the follies and foibles of the sixties. Read together, these reports on various facets of our culture and society compose a portrait which, though its separate elements may be poignant, eccentric, tragic or simply funny, displays a fond affirmation of the resiliency and stimulating disparateness of these United States.
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(“What’s new. What else. What next. What’s happened here.”...)
“What’s new. What else. What next. What’s happened here.” Pitch 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.
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(Winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. When Speed...)
Winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. When 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 enthrall a new generation of readers.
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Adler, Renata was born on October 19, 1938 in Milan, Italy. Daughter of Frederick L. and Erna (Strauss) Adler.
Bachelor of Arts, Bryn Mawr College, 1959; Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1960; D.d.E.S., Sorbonne U., Paris, 1961; Juris Doctor, Yale University, 1979; Doctor of Laws (honorary), Georgetown University, 1989.
Writer-reporter, New Yorker, New York City, since 1962; film critic, New York Times, 1968-1969.
(These fourteen pieces, all of them written between 1962 a...)
(From Library Journal An extraordinary coincidence occurre...)
(A Year in the Dark is a compendium of film reviews Renata...)
(A year's worth of movie reviews from 1968 by Renata Adler...)
(Winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. When Speed...)
(This is the best book by a film critic)
(Adler's second novel.)
(“What’s new. What else. What next. What’s happened here.”...)
Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association (Executive Board 1964-1970), American Academy and Institute Arts and Letters.