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Natalie Adler

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Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Nonfiction

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I am a writer, teacher, and editor. I have an MFA in Fiction from Brooklyn College, a PhD in Comparative Literature from Brown University, and was a Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellow at the Center for Fiction. Currently, I am an editor at Lux, a feminist magazine. I am from New Jersey and live in New York City with my wife and our Pomeranian.

Waiting on a Friend is my first novel. Check out the bookshelf "waiting-on-a-friend-research" for everything I read to write it! ...more

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Average rating: 4.05 · 240 ratings · 88 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Long Walk Home: Reflections on Bruce Springsteen by Jonathan D. Cohen (Editor), Natalie Adler (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Eric Alterman (Contributor) 3.79 avg rating — 92 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Waiting on a Friend 3.95 avg rating — 81 ratings — expected publication 2026 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Organize to Change Everything: Fighting for Abortion Access and Reproductive Justice by Natalie Adler (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Marian Jones (Editor), Jessie Kindig (Editor) 4.54 avg rating — 67 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Jan 29, 2026 10:17AM · like
Natalie Adler and 2 other people liked Ollie T.'s review of Waiting on a Friend: "Lesbians, ghosts, 1980s NYC, bathtubs, gay sex, AIDS history, both the extraordinariness and ordinariness of grief, humor, pathos, top-tier prose, commentary on gentrification, exploration of the erasure of the queer community, making the visible inv" Read more of this review »
Jan 25, 2026 10:19AM · see review
Natalie Adler and 2 other people liked Alex Ashmore's review of Waiting on a Friend: "Editorial Copy received through local book shop. Waiting on a Friend is a book I have been recommending to everyone around me since I have picked it up, and one I have been continuing to think about whenever I had to put it down. Striking a balance be" Read more of this review »
Jan 19, 2026 12:43PM · see review
Natalie Adler and 5 other people liked Rose's review of Waiting on a Friend: "‘How was I supposed to mourn anyone...when it would take the rest of my life to accept that they were gone when they should have been here still? How do I mourn someone when I can't get over that one fact, that they were supposed to be alive but they" Read more of this review »
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Natalie Adler made a comment on her review of Waiting on a Friend " Sebastian wrote: "You made me cry. Do it again." On it. ...more "
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Natalie Adler rated a book it was amazing Waiting on a Friend by Natalie Adler (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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