{"product_id":"in-the-land-of-men-a-memoir-isbn-9780062682420","title":"In the Land of Men: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA fiercely personal memoir about coming of age in the male-dominated literary world of the nineties, becoming the first female literary editor of \u003cem\u003eEsquire\u003c\/em\u003e, and Miller's personal and working relationship with David Foster Wallace\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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 \u003cem\u003eGQ \u003c\/em\u003emagazine in the mid-nineties. Even if its sensibilities were manifestly mid-century—the martinis, powerful male egos, and unquestioned authority of kings—\u003cem\u003eGQ \u003c\/em\u003estill 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 \u003cem\u003eEsquire\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut this was also a unique moment in history that saw the rise of a new literary movement, as exemplified by \u003cem\u003eMcSweeney\u003c\/em\u003e’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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“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 \u003cem\u003eMy Salinger Year \u003c\/em\u003eupdated for the age of \u003cem\u003eShe Said\u003c\/em\u003e: 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.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e— Eleanor Henderson, author of \u003cem\u003e10,000 Saints\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Coast of Akron\u003c\/em\u003e is a joy to read and decipher.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCleveland Plain Dealer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eThe Coast of Akron:\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\/\/\/\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Adrienne Miller’s enormous talent is evident on every page. . . . She has written a big, smart novel that’s confident and juicy.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCurtis Sittenfeld, The Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Miller’s handling of this crew is a joy, the characters revealing themselves through a clever and deftly synchronized plot and unflaggingly witty prose.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“When Miller lights the narrative fuse, her readers wait for the fireworks with heart-pounding giddiness. . . . Yet, oddly enough, it isn’t the zany plot that provides the most excitement. Instead, the pyrotechnics come from Miller’s enormous wit and linguistic creativity.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“During this nasty, nasty year, I looked for intelligent escapism in my reading, and one of the books that filled the bill was \u003cem\u003eIn the Land of Men\u003c\/em\u003e . . . With a kind of deploring bemusement, and love, Ms. Miller gives us Wallace more or less in the round, and even manages to be funny about it—no mean feat.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The jury’s still out on whether or not one must ultimately choose between the perfection of the life or the perfection of the life’s work. But, after taking an invigorating tour through Miller’s bookish world, it is clear that the verdict still matters.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eArtsfuse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Deftly evok[es] the spirit of a particular world at a particular time . . . presenting ample evidence of the power structures—some obvious, some not so visible—that bound it and all its problems together . . . The most enjoyable quality of the book is its relentless cataloging of Wallace’s inventively awful behavior, and of Miller’s efforts to withstand the onslaught. That Wallace was not a great guy is no surprise, but a lot of the detail here is fresh.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eIn the Land of Men\u003c\/em\u003e is both tender and painful. It’s power and mercy. If you love literature, novels, or anything that has to do with the written word, you will enjoy [this book.]” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAssociated Press\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A story of coming of age in the last gasp of the golden era of magazine journalism, against the backdrop of a thoroughly male and insistently masculine literary landscape. . . . The most powerful thing that \u003cem\u003eIn the Land of Men\u003c\/em\u003e does is make Wallace nothing more or less than a character in the story of Miller’s life—a fascinating and indispensable one, but a character nonetheless.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Bookworms, former English majors, and anyone tired of Old White Men novels will enjoy the blunt descriptions of petulant literary giants (John Updike), high-brow celebrities (Todd Solondz), and other behind-the-scenes figures.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAV Club\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An irresistible glimpse into the glory days of print magazines and the not-so-glorious behind-the-scenes moments.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Skimm\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Deftly brings to life the free-spending and freewheeling glossy magazine culture of the 1990s.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times  Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“She makes magic on the page. . . . If you’re a devotee of David Foster Wallace, you’ll devour this memoir with pleasure. If not, you may enjoy the cultural scavenger hunt and appreciate how much Adrienne Miller makes you stretch.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Independent Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] sharp blend of memoir and cultural\/literary history\u003cstrong\u003e . . . \u003c\/strong\u003eA good portion of her book centers on her difficult-to-define relationship with Wallace; her excerpts from phone conversations and voicemails and dates with him illustrate a personality that was undefinable yet brilliant. Miller exhibits a particular adroitness in her ability to re-create, with at times biting humor, various events and interactions in her career and relationships . . . A refreshingly relatable memoir from a gifted, intellectual writer.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Intimate . . . intriguing . . . will appeal to book nerds and fans of David Foster Wallace.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Movingly recount[s] the sexism she endured . . . . Miller's experience as a woman at a male-dominated magazine is unique.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Adrienne Miller did not merely find herself in the midst of a bright, innovative, challenging, unforgettable moment in literary culture: she made it happen. It was easy to miss that then, given all the attention paid to the brilliant writers, mostly men, that she discovered, nurtured, and endured. But now, with ferocious humor and honesty she conjures once more that Narnia-like world of books before blogs, magazines before the internet—capturing all its giddy verve, and all its frank injustices with her own unmatchable taste and wit at the dead center, where it always belonged.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Hodgman, author of Medallion Status\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Riveting . . . reckons with power, and the dark truth about who gets to have it.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEsquire, “The Best Books Coming Out This Winter”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An incredible guide to a ridiculous era and its outrages. Many will praise Miller's ability to bring a time and place to life, but I would also like to add that this book is very, very funny.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGary Shteyngart, author of Lake Success\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This cool, careful, enraged book about condescension has quiet humor . . . perfect pitch . . . and an unfashionable stoicism. When finally the fuse that’s been burning under her desk for nearly a decade of literary gate-keeping and risk-taking goes off, you don’t even feel as if Miller is raising her voice, only saying what she means, editing out, as was her profession, whatever doesn’t need to be there.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGreil Marcus, Los Angeles Review of Books, “Real Life Rock Top 10”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Miller delivers a beautifully written, fiercely honest account of finding her way — and her voice — in a male-dominated industry.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post, “10 Books to Read in February”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A deeply personal memoir by former \u003cem\u003eEsquire\u003c\/em\u003e editor Adrienne Miller, \u003cem\u003eIn the Land of Men\u003c\/em\u003e recounts her coming-of-age career in a male-dominated magazine world and the cost of breaking in.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eParade, “Books We Love”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"In The Land of Men\u003c\/em\u003e is about being the only woman in the room. But, beyond that, it’s about the magic of rooms themselves. It’s a revisiting of life before the age of ubiquitous screens, when we shared physical space—sometimes uncomfortably and sometimes ecstatically—with our heroes and our nemeses alike. I was thrilled to make the trip.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMeghan Daum, author of The Problem with Everything: My Journey Through The New Culture Wars\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Funny and shrewd . . . Miller offers a keen and caustic take on the literary universe at a crossroads . . . Her musings on the ‘psychologically intimate’ work of an editor are enlightening; her passages recounting blatant and insidious sexism are bracing, and her disclosures about her relationship with Wallace are cathartic. Miller’s love for language and faith in the power of art deepen this finely composed, forthright, witty, and involving memoir of one woman’s triumph in the competitive literary cosmos.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDonna Seaman, Booklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“As a farce, the book could not be more bizarre, or more dead-on-target. . . . The novel this one most resembles is Don DeLillo’s classic \u003cem\u003eWhite Noise\u003c\/em\u003e. Like the Gladneys of DeLillo’s book, the family in this lively debut has a slaphappy giddiness that seems almost to come from something in the air.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndependent (London)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Splendidly realized characters . . . Miller is a gifted ventriloquist.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e “Adrienne Miller’s \u003cem\u003eIn the Land of Men\u003c\/em\u003e is 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 \u003cem\u003eMy Salinger Year \u003c\/em\u003eupdated for the age of \u003cem\u003eShe Said\u003c\/em\u003e: 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.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEleanor Henderson, author of 10,000 Saints\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It’s Joanna Rakoff’s \u003cem\u003eMy Salinger Year \u003c\/em\u003eupdated for the age of \u003cem\u003eShe Said\u003c\/em\u003e. A tender reckoning with possession, power, and what Jia Tolentino called the ‘Important, Inappropriate Literary Man.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEleanor Henderson, author of 10,000 Saints\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Adrienne Miller’s voice is lucid and remorseful, and she’s brought us a beautiful, painful book, a tender dissection of elusive subjects up to and including the passage of time and youth itself.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJonathan Lethem\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Miller] recounts her career as an ‘improbable gatekeeper’ and spins an elegy for the glory days of American magazines, with cameos by Norman Mailer, George Plimpton, and Dave Eggers. The star of the show, though, is David Foster Wallace . . . who quickly became her greatest confidant. So began a long-distance love affair that defied definition. . . .What a treat to listen in.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889402933477,"sku":"NP9780062682420","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780062682420.jpg?v=1730231174","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/in-the-land-of-men-a-memoir-isbn-9780062682420","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}