I think criticism in recent years has been apt to talk a bit too much about the privilege of individual authors & too little about general material conditions and how they influence the fiction of a given period. I was very glad to try to address that by writing this.
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Thank you! It’s @vintagebooks.bsky.social & yes they are doing all six.
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The Life and Death of the Suburban Novel | Adelle Waldman
Remember the suburban novel? Books about attractive white families in nice houses who turn out to be miserable? Examples include Richard Yates’s
For @nybooks.com, I wrote about the death of the suburban novel but really about what I think makes a lot of today's fiction unsatisfying: "it’s awkward to write novels about middle-class problems in a society that is no longer even nominally middle-class.” www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
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@adellewaldman.bsky.social: “For millions of American low-wage workers today, the problem is not overwork—it’s underwork.“ theatln.tc/2HzqtiwI
14.05.2025 15:27 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Writing an introduction to the new Vintage edition of Jane Austen’s “Northanger Abbey” was one of the most fun assignments I’ve ever had. I’m delighted that The New Yorker reprinted it.
04.06.2025 16:19 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
Also hi. This is my first post here. I guess I need a profile pic. And a profile…
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Best Fiction Audiobooks of 2024
I don't know about others (?), but I’ve never been able to listen to the audio versions of my books—too cringe-y to hear my own words. But I've been told that the reader of "Help Wanted" is terrific, & so I'm especially happy to see this: open.spotify.com/playlist/37i... cc @wwnorton.bsky.social
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