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One of
Vogue's Best Books of the Year
One of
Esquire's Best Books of the Year
One of the
Wall Street Journal's Favorite Books of the Year
One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year:
Vogue, Parade, Esquire, Bitch, and Maclean's A
New York Times and
Washington Post Book to Watch
A fiercely personal memoir about coming of age in the male-dominated literary world of the nineties, becoming the first female literary editor of
Esquire, and Miller's personal and working relationship with David Foster Wallace
A naive and idealistic twenty-two-year-old from the Midwest, Adrienne Miller got her lucky break when she was hired as an editorial assistant at
GQ magazine in the mid-nineties. Even if its sensibilities were manifestly mid-century—the martinis, powerful male egos, and unquestioned authority of kings—
GQ still seemed the red-hot center of the literary world. It was there that Miller began learning how to survive in a man's world. Three years later, she forged her own path, becoming the first woman to take on the role of literary editor of
Esquire, home to the male writers who had defined manhood itself— Hemingway, Mailer, and Carver. Up against this old world, she would soon discover that it wanted nothing to do with a "mere girl.”
But this was also a unique moment in history that saw the rise of a new literary movement, as exemplified by
McSweeney's and the work of David Foster Wallace. A decade older than Miller, the mercurial Wallace would become the defining voice of a generation and the fiction writer she would work with most. He was her closest friend, confidant—and antagonist. Their intellectual and artistic exchange grew into a highly charged professional and personal relationship between the most prominent male writer of the era and a young woman still finding her voice.
This memoir—a rich, dazzling story of power, ambition, and identity—ultimately asks the question "How does a young woman fit into this male culture and at what cost?” With great wit and deep intelligence, Miller presents an inspiring and moving portrayal of a young woman's education in a land of men.
"The memoir I've been waiting for: a bold, incisive, and illuminating story of a woman whose devotion to language and literature comes at a hideous cost. It's Joanna Rakoff's
My Salinger Year updated for the age of
She Said: a literary New York now long past; an intimate, fiercely realist portrait of a mythic literary figure; and now, a tender reckoning with possession, power, and what Jia Tolentino called the 'Important, Inappropriate Literary Man.' A poised and superbly perceptive narration of the problems of working with men, and of loving them.”— Eleanor Henderson, author of
10,000 Saints
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Adrienne Miller was the literary and fiction editor of Esquire from 1997-2006. She is the author of the novel The Coast of Akron (FSG), and has taught writing at the University of Pennsylvania, Haverford College, and Bryn Mawr. She lives in New York City with her husband, son, and Italian Greyhound.
Zusammenfassung
One of Vogue’s Best
Books of the Year
One of Esquire’s Best
Books of the Year
One of the Wall Street
Journal’s Favorite Books of the Year
One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year: Vogue, Parade, Esquire, Bitch, and Maclean’s
A New York Times and Washington Post Book to Watch
A fiercely personal memoir about coming of age in the male-dominated literary world of the nineties, becoming the first female literary editor of Esquire, and Miller's personal and working relationship with David Foster Wallace
A naive and idealistic twenty-two-year-old from the Midwest,
Adrienne Miller got her lucky break when she was hired as an editorial
assistant at GQ magazine in the mid-nineties. Even if its sensibilities were
manifestly mid-century—the martinis, powerful male egos, and unquestioned
authority of kings—GQ still seemed the red-hot center of the literary world. It
was there that Miller began learning how to survive in a man’s world. Three
years later, she forged her own path, becoming the first woman to take on the
role of literary editor of Esquire, home to the male writers who had defined
manhood itself— Hemingway, Mailer, and Carver. Up against this old world, she
would soon discover that it wanted nothing to do with a “mere girl.”
But this
was also a unique moment in history that saw the rise of a new literary
movement, as exemplified by McSweeney’s and the work of David Foster Wallace. A
decade older than Miller, the mercurial Wallace would become the defining voice
of a generation and the fiction writer she would work with most. He was her
closest friend, confidant—and antagonist. Their intellectual and artistic
exchange grew into a highly charged professional and personal relationship
between the most prominent male writer of the era and a young woman still
finding her voice.
This memoir—a rich, dazzling story of power, ambition, and
identity—ultimately asks the question “How does a young woman fit into this
male culture and at what cost?” With great wit and deep intelligence, Miller
presents an inspiring and moving portrayal of a young woman’s education in a
land of men.
“The memoir I’ve been waiting for: a bold, incisive, and illuminating story of a woman whose devotion to language and literature comes at a hideous cost. It’s Joanna Rakoff’s My Salinger Year updated for the age of She Said: a literary New York now long past; an intimate, fiercely realist portrait of a mythic literary figure; and now, a tender reckoning with possession, power, and what Jia Tolentino called the ‘Important, Inappropriate Literary Man.’ A poised and superbly perceptive narration of the problems of working with men, and of loving them.”— Eleanor Henderson, author of 10,000 Saints
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“Movingly recount[s] the sexism she endured . . . . Miller's experience as a woman at a male-dominated magazine is unique.”
