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.”
EXPATS
Leif Randt and Vincenzo Latronico Compare Notes on the Millennial Berlin Experience
June 6, 2025
Last month, the award-winning authors got together to talk about their respective novels—”Allegro Pastel” and “Perfection”—and the Americanization of Berlin.
GIRLS
The L Word’s Kate Moennig and Leisha Hailey on Power Lesbians and On-Set Romance
June 5, 2025
To mark the release of their joint memoir, “So Gay For You,” the stars of the beloved television show got together to talk about on-set romance and bygone lesbian bars.
ON THE ROAD
Joe Westmoreland Takes Brandon Flynn on a Joyride Through the Annals of Gay History
June 4, 2025
Before the reissue of “Tramps Like Us,” a chronicle of his time hitchhiking through the country in search of community, the author joined “13 Reasons Why” actor Brandon Flynn to talk PrEP, pen pals, and preserving gay history.
IN CONVERSATION
Melissa Febos Tells Emily Ratajkowski What She Learned From Her Year Without Sex
June 2, 2025
After reading “The Dry Season,” the bracing new memoir by Melissa Febos, Emily Ratajkowski called the author to talk about sex, seduction, and Sally Rooney.
HISTORY
Thanks to Tourmaline, the Long-Awaited Biography of Marsha P. Johnson Is Here.
May 20, 2025
“I feel really blessed to have come up in a political community where we were receiving the gift of Marsha’s freedom movement,” the author told writer Journey Streams.
LOS ANGELES
John Tottenham on His Debut Novel Service, an Ode to Bookstores and Bohemians
May 15, 2025
To mark the release of his sardonic debut novel, “Service,” the LA-based poet joined us to talk gentrification, yellow drugs, and name-dropping.
SHRINK
Falling in Love With Your Therapist? Adelaide Faith Wrote a Novel For You.
May 14, 2025
“To me, writing has always seemed similar to therapy,” said the author of “Happiness Forever,” out this week. “I told my therapist about my transference in the same way that Sylvie does in the novel.”
IN CONVERSATION
Rosie Stockton and Rachel Kushner on Pump Jacks, Death Drives, and the Uses of Metaphor
May 13, 2025
“It’s a book of climate catastrophe,” the poet says of “Fuel,” her latest collection now out with Nightboat Books. “It strives to reckon with despair on multiple scales.”
IN SESSION
Hannah Zeavin Tells Us Why Psychoanalysis Is About More Than Just Daddy Issues
May 2, 2025
“Freud was not that interested in the mother, really,” says the founder of the psychoanalytic magazine Parapraxis, who’s written a new book that interrogates the intersection of motherhood and technology.
IN CONVERSATION
Sophie Gilbert and Amanda Hess on MLMs, Motherhood, and Menstrual Tracking Apps
May 1, 2025
“I wanted people to google porn and find feminist criticism instead,” says the author, who joined The New York Times critic Amanda Hess to discuss her new book, “Girl on Girl.”
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.”