In the Land of Men Quotes

“You always had to play along and enact a charade. You had to meet these people in their illusions of themselves and pretend to see them as they wished to be seen. You had to pretend that the mask was real.”
― Adrienne Miller, In the Land of Men

“What are we to do with the art of profoundly compromised men?”
― Adrienne Miller, In the Land of Men: A Memoir

“Marysville, Ohio, is now pretty much a commuter suburb of Columbus, but when I was growing up there, it may as well have been rural Kansas in the thirties.”
― Adrienne Miller, In the Land of Men

“Adam Johnson (then a student; he would go on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction). I published a piece by young Jonathan”
― Adrienne Miller, In the Land of Men

“Porlockian”
― Adrienne Miller, In the Land of Men

“Amanda Davis.”
― Adrienne Miller, In the Land of Men

“Norman Mailer, Don DeLillo, Richard Ford, John Cheever, Ann Beattie, William Gaddis, Cormac McCarthy, and Rust’s own spouse, the amazing Joy Williams. He was”
― Adrienne Miller, In the Land of Men

“It is not impossible that free will is an invention of the novelist, who is in the interiority business.”
― Adrienne Miller, In the Land of Men: A Memoir