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In the Land of Men : a Memoir by Adrienne Miller; OverDrive, Inc is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is In the Land of Men : a Memoir about?
One of Vogue ’s Best Books of the Year One of Esquire ’s Best Books of the Year One of the Wall Street Journal ’s Favorite Books of the Year One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year: Vogue, Parade, Esquire, Bitch, and Maclean’s A New York Times and Washington Post Book to Watch A fiercely personal memoir about coming of age in the male-dominated literary world of the nineties, becoming the first female literary editor of Esquire , and Miller's personal and working relationship with David Foster Wallace A 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 GQ magazine in the mid-nineties. Even if its sensibilities were manifestly mid-century—the martinis, powerful male egos, and unquestioned authority of kings— GQ still 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 Esquire , home to the male writers who had defined manhood itself— Hemingway, Mailer, and Carver. Up against this
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Adrienne Miller; OverDrive, Inc
- Publisher
- Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780062682437
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Memoir, Biography
- Rating
- 3.8 / 5 (177 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14