“I was writing this book that was kind of longing for the city that I actually lived in.” In this episode of Poured Over: The Barnes & Noble Podcast hosted by Miwa Messer, Natalie Adler talks about the loneliness she felt in New York City during the pandemic and how it inspired her to write her debut novel, Waiting on a Friend (Hogarth, 2026), which takes place at the height of the AIDS crisis in 1984.
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