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Renata Adler • Speedboat
Peril
The new enemy was boredom, in the sense of lack of drama. The new currency was fame.
Renata Adler • After the Tall Timber: Collected Nonfiction
See enough and write it down, I tell myself, and then some morning when the world seems drained of wonder, some day when I am only going through the motions of doing what I am supposed to do, which is write — on that bankrupt morning I will simply open my notebook and there it will all be, a forgotten account with accumulated interest, paid passage... See more
Joan Didion • On Keeping a Notebook - Joan Didion
breakthroughs, only gesture, celebrity quietism, rage, symptom, backlash.
Renata Adler • After the Tall Timber: Collected Nonfiction
