Renata Adler: 'I've been described as shrill. Isn't that strange?'
Renata Adler talks about her life as a reporter, critic and novelist, how she was ostracised by the New Yorker for lambasting Pauline Kael and what it's like to come in from the cold as her novels are republished…
Her advice to writers is: cling to your day job – wherever it happens to be – for as long as you possibly can. "I've said it all along, in my even way: if you're at Condé Nast, and they're cutting your pieces to shreds, just hang on. Do your art in your own time, but don't quit because then you'll be out there, vulnerable. When I left the New Yorker, I was fair game. There is a little bit of fear when you have a connection [to a media institution], no matter how tenuous and no matter how disreputable the organisation."
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