Literature

PERFORMANCE

How David Lynch and Agatha Christie Inspired Katie Kitamura’s Latest Literary Thriller

April 17, 2025

Just before the release of her fifth novel, “Audition,” the author joined us to explain how she conceived of the book’s thorny experiments with structure and unreality.

PEN GAME

“I Think Most Things Are Bad”: Andrea Long Chu on Cruelty, Criticism, and Conviction

April 8, 2025

The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic joined us to discuss her reputation for being a hater and her brand-new collection of essays, “Authority.”

SHRINK

“This Is Freud’s Wet Dream”: Jamieson Webster on Whale Pods, Mass Anxiety, and Nasal Menstruation

April 2, 2025

The psychoanalyst and author of the new book “On Breathing” joined perfumer Marissa Zappas to talk about repression, amnesia, and learning to living in the chaos.

RORSCHACH TEST

Graydon Carter on Guest Lists, Dress Codes, and Meghan Markle

March 27, 2025

In anticipation of his upcoming tell-all “When the Going Was Good,” the publishing overlord and celebrity ringmaster shares his gut reactions to today’s most pressing matters.

RORSCHACH TEST

“It’s the Wild West”: Amanda Knox on True Crime, Prison Food, and Summer Flings

March 25, 2025

Before the release of her new memoir, the wrongfully accused mother and activist took the hot seat for a philosophical installment of the Rorschach Test.

IN CONVERSATION

Author Josh Duboff and Alison Roman on the Aimless Drift of Your Early Thirties

March 21, 2025

Before the release of his debut novel, “Early Thirties,” the journalist-turned-author joined his friend Alison Roman to talk interview etiquette and pandemic-era gloom.

FICTION

Can a Trans Writer Be America’s Next Great Novelist? Torrey Peters Thinks So.

March 12, 2025

Earlier this month, we visited the “Detransition, Baby” author at her Brooklyn apartment to talk about writing amidst the Trump administration’s assault on trans rights.

NOVELISTS

“Always Hold the Reader’s Hand”: Adam Ross, in Conversation With Taffy Brodesser-Akner

March 6, 2025

The author of the sprawling New York novel “Playworld” joined Taffy Brodesser-Akner for a wide-ranging conversation about memory, trauma, irony, and reading reviews.

ONLINE

Jeremy Gordon on Media Jobs, Male Loneliness, and Modern Malaise

March 4, 2025

“That failed middle class of the millennial generation was certainly on my mind,” said the author when he joined us to discuss his debut novel, “See Friendship.”

IN CONVERSATION

Obsessed With Awards Season? Then Daniel D’Addario’s The Talent Is For You.

February 25, 2025

The author and Chief Correspondent at Variety joined Katie Kitamura to talk about his debut novel, “The Talent,” and the dark underbelly of a Hollywood awards season.

IN CONVERSATION

Haley Mlotek and Jia Tolentino on Gossip, Longing, and Literary Love Stories

February 18, 2025

What is romance? “All forms of longing,” the author of “No Fault” tells her friend and fellow writer Jia Tolentino. “And definitely a healthy amount of uncertainty or nervousness or hesitation.”

THEORY

Author Sophie Lewis Wants You to Be a Better Feminist

February 17, 2025

“Kamala, Hillary and others offer no critique of markets and the economic dependence of heteronormative women,” argues the author and theorist, who joined us to discuss her latest book, “Enemy Feminisms.”

DEBUT

A Woman and a Blob Walk Into a Bar. Author Maggie Su Can Tell You the Rest.

January 28, 2025

The author, whose debut novel “Blob” depicts a surreal and unlikely love story, joined us to talk about first loves, overbearing parents, and Asian-American stereotypes.

MEMOIR

Lola Kirke Takes Us Inside the Wild West Village of Her Youth

January 27, 2025

“For a long time, I wanted to be so many other people that weren’t me,” says the actor, author, and sister of Jemima. “And in writing this book, I really did get to find myself.”

OPENING

Na Kim Designs Your Favorite Book Covers. Now She’s Painting For Herself.

January 22, 2025

“I’ve always wanted to paint,” said the artist and book designer before opening a new exhibition at Nicola Vassell Gallery. “It’s been the thing I’ve wanted to do since I was a wee, wee girl.”

LIT

Aria Aber on Age Gaps, Cheap Thrills, and Her Debut Novel Good Girl

January 15, 2025

The poet and novelist joined us to talk about her new book, “Good Girl,” and the politics of illustrating its narrator’s thorny relationship with a manipulative older man.

IT GIRL

Caroline Calloway Crashed Out of New York. Now She’s Got Some Advice to Share.

January 8, 2025

After decamping to Sarasota, Florida, the notorious scammer called us to talk about her new self-published book, an homage to literary it girl Elizabeth Wurtzel.

JOHN

“Tall Blonde With a Big Dick”: 18 Men Ask Edmund White Some Sexy Questions

December 23, 2024

The renegade gay novelist sounds off sailors, silver daddies, and hustling ahead of the release of his new sex memoir.

HE SAID SHE SAID

How Succession’s Harriet Walter Imagined Alternative Lives for Shakespeare’s Women

December 20, 2024

The acclaimed actor joined poet Jonathan Wells to discuss her new book, in which she imagines soliloquies Shakespeare’s female characters might have delivered.

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REAPPRAISAL

“It’s Intimate, But Also Perverse”: Inside Suzanne and Louise, Hervé Guibert’s Lost Photo Novel

December 13, 2024

This fall, Jordan Weitzman of Magic Hour Press reissued “Suzanne and Louise,” the beloved 1980 photo novel by French writer Hervé Guibert.