Adelle Waldman

Nov 13, 2024 | time.com | Shannon Carlin |Adelle Waldman

These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. By Shannon CarlinNovember 13, 2024 8:19 AM ESTIn Adelle Waldman’s shrewd second novel, Help Wanted, the employees of a struggling superstore in a small, upstate New York town don’t just get mad, they get even.

Oct 22, 2024 | bookforum.com | Adelle Waldman

Adelle Waldman discusses her novel about retail workers plotting against their boss Help Wanted BY Adelle Waldman. New York: W. W. Norton. 288 pages. $29. Purchase this book: Bookshop • Amazon SHEILA HETI: Your new novel, Help Wanted (W. W. Norton, $29), is about the collective action of a group of workers at a big-box store. They try to get their hated boss out of their hair in a way that is counterintuitive and comic.

Aug 1, 2024 | bookforum.com | Adelle Waldman

SHEILA HETI: Your new novel, Help Wanted (W. W. Norton, $29), is about the collective action of a group of workers at a big-box store. They try to get their hated boss out of their hair in a way that is counterintuitive and comic. It feels completely different from your 2013 book, The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P., which was about the inner life of a 2000s Brooklyn literary man. How did you decide to write this very different story? ADELLE WALDMAN: I consider this novel to be a Trump novel.

Jul 9, 2024 | theatlantic.com | Adelle Waldman

When a certain type of person reaches middle age without having achieved the level of professional recognition or personal happiness they feel they deserve, they’re apt to take a page from sociologists who study poverty and start searching for root causes, the source of what went wrong. These dissatisfied adults turn to their therapist: Was it their parents? Something else in their upbringing? All options are on the table—except, perhaps, those that locate the blame within.

Jun 17, 2024 | itsonlyzach.substack.com | Daniel Lefferts |Adelle Waldman |Alexandra S. Tanner |Zach Wilcha

Whoa. It’s been a minute! I’m caught up in the craziness of Pride season as a brave soldier who works in the LGBTQ+ nonprofit space. For us, the end of May and all of June are the equivalent of Thanksgiving through Christmas for elves. When I’m not out giving talks or participating in some woke advocacy scheme, I’ve been trying to catch up on things at home. As a result, it’s been a month without a newsletter and an ever-growing pile of finished books to write about.