August 09, 2013
A series that celebrates everyone’s favorite part of an author reading: the Q&A. This week, Julie Klausner interviews Rob Sheffield about his memoir, Turn Around Bright Eyes.
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A series that celebrates everyone’s favorite part of an author reading: the Q&A. This week, Julie Klausner interviews Rob Sheffield about his memoir, Turn Around Bright Eyes.
Read MoreStephin Merritt discusses sci-fi, hackneyed metaphors and how his music-making process involves two “different species of beaver.”
Read MoreThe author of The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards discusses warzone workshop culture, living vicariously through characters and how we can connect writers like Fitzgerald and Hemingway.
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A weekly series that celebrates everyone’s favorite part of the author reading: the Q&A. This week, Shani Boianjiu discusses the powers of observation that come with being a young woman in her 20s.
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During our interview, Julie was lovely and open about her fondness for musicals, The Monkees and JAPs who know their lipstick.
Read MoreA weekly series that celebrates everyone’s favorite part of the author reading: the Q&A. This week, Jami Attenberg and Francesca Segal discuss how to write about home when you're so far away.
Read MoreWith a handful of main characters whose stories we follow for 35 years, Packer attempts to repopulate narratives at the epicenters of the housing collapse and deindustrialization.
Read MoreWe discuss the navigation of a novelistic tone in a work of journalism and whether Jay-Z would be cool with The Unwinding.
Read MoreA series in which we delve into a foreign slice of NYC life. This week: Drag. Emily Morris chats with Demanda Dahling, author of Don't Piss in My Martini, Please! and staple of the New York drag scene, about the path to becoming Demanda, his thoughts on RuPaul's Drag Race, hallucinogens and the importance of Payless.
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