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.
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.