Speedboat: With an introduction by Hilton Als by Renata Adler #foliosociety colloquial narration and razor-sharp sense

colloquial narration and razor-sharp sense of how people really communicate

With a sock full of rags for a ball

but something wilder and more interesting

Each section tackles the fascinating

Speedboat: With an introduction by Hilton Als by Renata Adler #foliosociety colloquial narration and razor-sharp senseJen 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. Simultaneously novel, memoir, commonplace book, confession and critique Speedboat is funny, disturbing, cutting, brilliant unlike anything that had come before. Since it burst onto the scene in the 1970s, it has enthralled