After The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
Speedboat by Renata Adler
If Lydia Davis's collected stories hooked you with their minimalist prose and ironic observations of everyday neuroses, you're in for a treat with Renata Adler's Speedboat—it's like extending that thrill of intellectual detachment through fragmented vignettes of urban futility. Revel in the smug superiority over banality, where communication falters in elegant failures and alienation echoes your quiet dissatisfactions. Perfect for overeducated souls craving therapy in pretentious, plot-rebelling form.