En tierra de hombres

At the age of twenty-five, Adrienne Miller was promoted to literary editor of Esquire, a magazine that for decades had shaped the very concept of masculinity, embracing authors such as Carver, Hemingway and Mailer on its pages. It was the nineties, the golden age of print journalism and a relevant moment in which women began to occupy the positions of power that until then had been vetoed from them. On a literary level, it was the moment of the emergence of David Foster Wallace as the voice of his generation. This book, a focus of great interest for the contradictory portrait that the author makes of her professional and sentimental relationship with the author of The Infinite Joke, delves into the prestigious New York publishing circles dominated by narcissistic men, and delves into the complexities of a personal relationship with Foster Wallace that always navigates between intellectual admiration and psychological abuse. A classic story of survival in an adverse world that illuminates an era and characters devoured by their own ego.