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.
HEX
How a Real-Life Stalker Inspired Author Ella Baxter’s Furious Art World Satire
December 5, 2024
The author of “New Animal” joined Paul Dalla Rosa to talk publicity, art monsters, and putting a hex on her stalker with her sophomore novel, “Woo Woo.”
IN CONVERSATION
Yigit Turhan and Carine Roitfeld on Beauty, Butterflies, and Body Horror
November 15, 2024
To mark the release of his debut novel, the author joined the legendary fashion editor to talk about pissing off advertisers, the nature of beauty, and being horny for horror movies.
WOMEN
Lili Anolik Takes Us Inside the Literary Rivalry Between Joan Didion and Eve Babitz
November 14, 2024
The author of a new book exploring the parallel lives of writers Joan Didion and Eve Babitz joined us to talk about the two literary icons and their visions of Los Angeles.
IN CONVERSATION
Jeff VanderMeer Tells Victor LaValle Why He Returned to Area X
November 8, 2024
The two writers got together to discuss their horror-fiction roots and why VanderMeer decided to return to the setting of his beloved “Southern Reach” trilogy ten years later.
MARTYRDOM
“Art Makes the Unbearable Bearable”: Romana Londi, in Conversation With Ottessa Moshfegh
November 5, 2024
To mark the opening of her exhibition at Rhinoceros Gallery, the Italian painter talked to novelist Ottessa Moshfegh about pain, pleasure, and depictions of martyrdom.
FIRST LADY
“At Least Her Dress Is Pretty”: Brontez Purnell Reviews Melania Trump’s New Memoir
October 30, 2024
The experience of reading Melania Trump’s new memoir, Brontez Purnell writes, was one of “lobotomized boredom punctuated with turbulence and terror.”
HOLE
Author Nate Lippens on Trauma Narratives and Serial Killers
October 25, 2024
“I love really intimate writing, or at least the illusion of diary or memoir,” says the author of “Ripcord,” publishing with Semiotext(e). “But the novel frees you up.”
POETRY
Poet Ariana Reines Isn’t Afraid of Saying the Wrong Thing
October 21, 2024
To mark the publication of her latest book, “Wave of Blood,” the poet talked to us about Gaza, insanity, and the process of stitching together a genre-resistant text.
IN CONVERSATION
Lucy Ives and Chris Kraus on Unicorns, Fantasy, and Flaubert
October 16, 2024
To mark the release of her new essay collection, the novelist told her friend and fellow writer Chris Kraus how her identity was forged in the public libraries of New York City.