Daniel Menaker Books

Daniel Menaker transitioned from a long tenure as an editor at The New Yorker to a career as an author. As a former book editor himself, his writing often delves into the nuances of the publishing world and the complexities of human interaction. Menaker's work is characterized by its sharp wit and keen observational humor, offering satirical and ironic perspectives on contemporary life. His prose is distinguished by its elegant construction and insightful commentary.

Terminalia
64 pages
3 hours of reading
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In January, Daniel Menaker-former New Yorker fiction editor, Random House editor-in-chief, and author of The Treatment, among many other books-received a terminal diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, and the twenty-four poems collected in TERMINALIA were written over the course of Menaker's diagnosis and treatment. The collection chronicles his "long contention with the truth": that "The illness you're fighting / And to which you will lose was Written, like this. / But uneditable, inevitable."
The Treatment
Jake Singer is heading for a life of emotional paralysis and professional mediocrity, so he turns to psychoanalysis and Dr Ernesto Morales, whose tactics are worthy of the Spanish Inquisition. But when Jake beds a beautiful socialite, it seems that everything is just what the doctor ordered.

Terminalia

The Treatment