![]() ![]() ![]() A big part of the appeal is Waldman’s reserved tone in writing, the way that the narration feels like a David Attenborough voiceover, observing these characters in the wild. Beyond the smart writing, the book resonated with me in a way that books about fly-fishing may resonate with others. life, my friend.” (And yes, that waste of time does work for a New York-based media company.)īeta males getting skewered by a young woman’s unerring eye: it’s irresistible - at least to this reader, who gets this subculture. ![]() connected with readers begins with a 23-year-old woman in finance (who hadn’t read the book), calling a potential paramour “Nathaniel P.” Admittedly, I may have even written an email last year that included a sentence like, “Don’t waste your time on someone living that Nathaniel P. A recent Observer article on how Nathaniel P. Adelle Waldman’s The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P., new to paperback this week, was one of the pleasures of last year, a book with such a witty 19th-century voice, so creepily accurate about life in Brooklyn as a freelance writer and a self-made literary type, that after reading it, it was hard to not see things through its lens - or to imagine Waldman in the back of the room at any party, taking copious notes. ![]()
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