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Adam Langer

Adam Langer
Adam Langer is a journalist, editor, and the author of a memoir and five novels including The Washington Story, Ellington Boulevard, The Thieves of Manhattan, The Salinger Contract, and the internationally best-selling novel Crossing California, which was described in the Chicago Tribune by James Atlas as “the most vivid novel about Chicago since Saul Bellow's Herzog and the most ambitious debut set in Chicago since Philip Roth's Letting Go.” Formerly a senior editor at Book Magazine and a frequent contributor to the New York Times, he currently serves as culture editor at The Forward.


The Novels We Wrote When We Were 17: Adam Langer on High School Rumors and Storytelling

Or, How the Memories of the Past Haunt the Stories of the Present
August 4, 2022  By Adam Langer
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