A review by anchorlouise
In the Land of Men: A Memoir by Adrienne Miller

2.0

Maybe it’s because I’ve worked in news, but I found this book to just simply be boring. I wanted more, and it seemed that the author had to justify her existence or what made her interesting in relation to the men in her life. I was surprised by the choices of stories that were included about working for her magazines, because they were just so uninteresting and so uninspiring that I couldn’t understand why that particular story or memory was included. This felt like a book without a purpose. I would have loved to hear more about the author as an individual, her own vulnerabilities, how she saw herself as a pioneer, how she really enacted change in her industry, but this didn’t deliver. I think part of the issue is that this book is packaged as something it is not. This becomes more of a biography of David Foster Wallace than a memoir. And if that’s what it was intended to be, that’s fine. But that’s personally not what I wanted to read about.