MOMMY ISSUES
Molly Jong-Fast and Jay McInerney on the Price of Literary Immortality
June 11, 2025
“All she cared about was posterity,” the writer says of her mother, Erica Jong, whose descent into addiction she narrates in her candid new memoir, “How to Lose Your Mother.”
LIT
“Catharsis Is For Unsent Emails”: Sloane Crosley, in Conversation With Jay McInerney
February 29, 2024
“I’ve found that writing about my life makes everything just a teeny tiny bit worse,” says the author, whose new book delves into the suicide of her friend and mentor.
NOSTALGIA
How Photographer Will Vogt Captured the Seedy, Greedy Eighties on Camera
July 20, 2023
“They are often drunk, or, in some cases, high on cocaine.”
Christopher Bollen
September 6, 2011
Christopher Bollen’s debut novel, Lightning People (Soft Skull Press), begins with a wedding and ends on a beach. What happens in between, however, is more of a nightmare than a storybook fantasy.