Megan Burbank is a writer living in Seattle. She is the author of Notes on Lee Miller (Dancing Girl Press, 2013), and has written for Bitch, The Stranger, Two Serious Ladies, PANK, and other places. She runs communications for a reproductive rights advocacy nonprofit.
Renata Adler's Speedboat (Amazon | NYRB Classics) chronicles the misadventures of a student at a woman's college who (illegally) owns an alligator, the Celtic knot of French wait-in-this-line-to-wait-in-this-line bureaucracy, a speedboat journey that leads to a broken back, and the inability of bougie under-40s to contribute meaningfully to charitable work. I could just as easily say that Speedboat examines the artifice of the campaign trail, the circle-jerk of academia, and the odd line that dictates male…
