Renata Adler Interview: Overcoming Writer's Block and Unveiling Journalistic Secrets

Renata Adler Interview: Overcoming Writer's Block and Revealing Journalistic Secrets

Author and journalist Renata Adler shares how she deals with writer's block and what makes a good journalist. She remembers what she learned going to Vietnam in 1967, how covering the Selma to Montgomery marches led her to become a speechwriter for the chairman of the Nixon impeachment hearings committee during the scandal. Watergate, and his time as a film critic for The New. York Times.

Renata Adler was born in Milan, Italy in 1938, but soon moved with her family to America in 1939, where they settled first in New York and then in Danbury, Connecticut. Adler attended Bryn Mawr College, the University of Paris, and Yale Law School. She is known for her unflinching honesty as a journalist and film critic for The New Yorker and The New York Times and has also written collections of essays, political speeches, and novels, including Politics and Media: Essays (1988) and Pitch Dark (1983). His book, After the Tall Timber (2015), is a collection of his greatest nonfiction works, bringing together over 500 pages. Adler taught at Boston University (BU) for several years. She was a visiting professor of journalism and a member of the BU University Professors Program until 2006.

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