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Renata Adler (born October 19, 1938) is an American author, journalist, and critic. Known for her sharp prose and incisive cultural commentary, she was a staff writer for The New Yorker and wrote novels like Speedboat and Pitch Dark. Her work explores themes of power, media, and language, earning her recognition as a significant voice in American literature.

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“That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers phone. Writers sleep. I have met very few writers who write at all.”

People Writing Self Sleep Drink Mets Phones Meant To Be Evident Rant

Book:Speedboat

Source: Speedboat

“Self-pity” is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative.”

Thinking Self Sadness Pity Self Pity

Book:Speedboat

Source: Speedboat

“It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.”

Inspirational Self Generations Fashion Style Clothes Experience Historical Erase

Book:A year in the dark: journal of a film critic, 1968-69

Source: A year in the dark: journal of a film critic, 1968-69

“Moral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired an ironic echo, a sort of cackling aftermath.”

Self Time Moral Principles Corruption Magazines Irony Ironic Echoes Infatuation Aftermath

Book:Gone: The Last Days of the New Yorker

Source: Gone: The Last Days of the New Yorker

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Born: October 19, 1938
Known for: Author
Quotes: 47

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After the Tall Timber: Collected NonfictionRelated source material

Toward a radical middle: fourteen pieces of reporting and criticismRelated source material

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