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Natalie Adler

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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: 4.02 · 291 ratings · 114 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Waiting on a Friend 3.89 avg rating — 129 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
	Long Walk Home: Reflections on Bruce Springsteen by Jonathan D. Cohen (Editor), Natalie Adler (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Eric Alterman (Contributor) 3.82 avg rating — 95 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
	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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Natalie Adler rated a book it was amazing The Red Sacrament by Sara Hinkley (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
I blurbed this book and was thrilled to say: Sara Hinkley’s THE RED SACRAMENT is the unholy progeny of Anne Rice and Karl Marx--and mother and father are fighting. Hinkley conjures an opulent yet sordid theater world with such slight of hand that you ...more
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Natalie Adler and 3 other people liked Ezra Kupor's review of Waiting on a Friend: "God this book was good"
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Natalie Adler and 13 other people liked Cody's review of Waiting on a Friend: "Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the review copy! This novel releases in May. Easy 5 stars and will likely end up on my list of favorite books of 2026: Waiting on a Friend is a look at queer life in NYC in 1984–the early years of the AIDS cr" Read more of this review »
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Natalie Adler and 3 other people liked Sasha Wolf's review of Waiting on a Friend: "This book made me sob and wail out loud. I mean that as a compliment, because the setting deserves no less. In early 1980s New York, Renata is struggling to come to terms with too many dead. She sees them as ghosts, but her deceased addict mother and" Read more of this review »
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