![]() In the opening scene, Nate runs into Juliet, whose abortion he paid for after only three or four dates. Yes, “nates” is another word for buttocks, and Waldman’s characters belatedly conclude he’s an “ass.” Adele Waldman’s book having now come out in paperback, we’re making amends to her and to all those women afflicted in the meantime by Nates. But if you read only this website, you never saw a review. ![]() tied for fifth with more votes than, for example, National Book Award finalists by Pynchon and Lahiri. ![]() In December, former editor Lucas Wittmann called the novel the “best debut” of the year, and in the Beast’s aggregated list of other publications’ year-end best-fiction surveys The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. ![]() was published last July, it was designated a “Hot Read” here at The Daily Beast. But Nate is the product of a politically correct education and wants to have sex with similarly educated women in publishing, so he torments himself with scruples that never lead to changed behavior but do produce some of the most sophisticated (and comic) rationalizing since Nabokov’s Humbert Humbert defended child-molesting in Lolita. Despite getting lucky with a sizeable advance for his forthcoming first novel, Nate wishes he could be like “those cock-swinging writers” Mailer and Roth of an earlier time. Nathaniel Piven is a Harvard-educated, 30-year-old temp worker, freelance book reviewer, and full-time player in the Brooklyn dating game. ![]()
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