Empathy
"There's something very important that I don't understand. How can I be a woman and still be happy?" Anna O. is a thirtyish New Yorker living in the squalid East Village of 1990. Dead friends and junkies on the...
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Speedboat
"[S]omething odd kept happening," Renata Adler said, of writing Speedboat. "Once I had an anecdote, and my intention was to keep going until I reached the whole point, my reason for telling it, I noticed that well before I...
My Misspent Youth
"Earlier this summer I was walking down West End Avenue in Manhattan and remembered, with a sadness that nearly knocked me off my feet, just why I came to New York seven years ago and just why I am...
The Correspondence Artist
Vivian, a writer and single mother living in New York, finds herself involved with an internationally famous, intensely charismatic art star. As the affair progresses, she begins to narrate the story of their not-quite-love by quoting her correspondence. But...
Sempre Susan
Sempre Susan is novelist Sigrid Nunez's brief, stinging memoir of her life tucked under the wing of Susan Sontag, who was her mentor, great influence, tormentor, and boyfriend's mother. At the age of 25, Nunez, a recent Columbia...
Nine Months
Sonia already has two little kids, so when she finds herself unexpectedly pregnant with a third, she's not thrilled. She had been looking forward to freedom from the tyranny of diapers, spit-up, and sleepless, sexless nights. Before becoming "a...
Promising Young Women
As Promising Young Women begins, a narrator named Lizzie is recalling the time she spent in her late teens institutionalized for depression. Her voice, hypnotic and highly stylized, owes something to The Bell Jar. She even steals a few memorable...
I'm Trying To Reach You
On the day of Michael Jackson's death, former dancer and current half-assed NYU dance scholar Gray Adams finds himself sad, alone, and bored late at night in a Zagreb hotel with only the Internet for comfort. Two hours after...