Episode 156: Renata Adler

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Education, Books, Arts, News

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2019

⏱️ 82 minutes

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

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1:06.0	Hiya, it's Max. Aaron and Evan and myself, we're all on vacation this week. And so we are putting an old episode down the feed. And it is one of my all-time favorites. Really, it's like one of my favorite conversations that I've ever had with or without microphones. It's from September 2015. And the guest is Renata Adler.
1:28.1	We're going to play the intro from when we air the show so you can learn more about her.
1:32.5	But one thing that I have thought about since quite a bit is Renata and I were talking
1:39.9	for most of that summer about her coming on the show.
1:43.4	And it took a long time, actually, to, like, figure out whether or not she wanted to do it.
1:50.9	And I'm just so glad that she did.
1:54.8	It's one of those ones that has really stuck with me.
1:58.7	And if you are new to the show and missed it the first time around,
2:03.0	it seemed like one that might be worth playing again. So here it is from September 2015,
2:09.5	number 156, I believe, in the Long Forum podcast archive. My conversation with Renata Adler,
2:16.4	thanks, of course, to MailChimp for making it
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