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… Renata Adler: 'I've been described as shrill. Isn't that strange?' | Interview | Books | The Observer. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Her advice to writers is: cling to your day job – wherever it happens to be – for as long as you possibly can. "I've said it all along, in my even way: if you're at Condé Nast, and they're cutting your pieces to shreds, just hang on. Do your art in your own time, but don't quit because then you'll be out there, vulnerable. When I left the New Yorker, I was fair game. There is a little bit of fear when you have a connection [to a media institution], no matter how tenuous and no matter how disreputable the organisation."