Speedboat Av Renata Adler

<p>Jen Fain is a journalist negotiating the fraught landscape of 1970s New York. Party guests, taxi drivers, brownstone dwellers, professors, journalists, presidents, and debutantes fill these dispatches from the world as she finds it.<br><br>Simultaneously novel, memoir, commonplace book, confession, and critique - <i>Speedboat </i>is funny, disturbing, cutting, brilliant unlike anything that had come before. Since it burst onto the scene in the 1970s, it has enthralled generations of readers and been a touchstone for writers including David Foster Wallace, Claudia Rankine and Jenny Offill.<br><br><b>With an introduction by Hilton Als</b></p>