The reporter and columnist Adelle Waldman published her highly acclaimed debut novel, The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P., in 2013 (recently translated into French by Anne Rabinovitch). With finesse and irony, the novel traces the wanderings of its main character, Nate Piven, a member of Brooklyn’s fashionable literary elite. In this pointed comedy of manners, Waldman offers a brilliantly composed portrait of a flawed and narcissistic modern male through an exploration of his troubled love life.
Adelle Waldman
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International Forum on the Novel 2015: Keywords
Each year, the International Forum on the Novel in Lyon, France, invites authors to write about a “keyword” of their choice. The following texts are drawn from this year’s forum, presented by the Villa Gillet and Le Monde in partnership with France Inter and Les Subsistances (Lyon). The full list of participating English-language writers and […]
