OFF MENU
Sex and the City’s Candace Bushnell Is Still Playing Herself
May 29, 2025
“People are very flat now,” said the “Sex and the City” author over champagne and caviar on the Upper East Side. “And they’re flat because they are online a lot.”
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.
LIT
Debut Author Oisín McKenna on Goblin Parties and Gay Communes
July 3, 2024
The Irish writer joins Paul Johnathan to talk partying in London, teenage hookups, and his debut novel “Evenings and Weekends.”
LIT
Writer Simon Wu on Political Art, Rave Culture, and “Asian American-Core”
July 2, 2024
Before the release of his new book “Dancing On My Own,” the critic and curator joins us to talk about avoiding clichés, the realities of identity and branding, and the tension between commercial success and cultural integrity.
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Walt John Pearce and Honor Levy on Potties, Performance Art, and Gertrude Stein
April 19, 2024
From a Walmart in Upstate New York, the writers discuss a forthcoming 52-hour marathon reading of “The Making of Americans.”
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Wayne Koestenbaum on Poetry, Puberty, and Purgation
March 12, 2024
“Language is the glove into which I stick my hand, which permits me contact with the world,” says the writer and poet of his new book, “Stubble Archipelago.”
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“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.
OPEN BOOK
Author Andrew Ewell Doesn’t Believe in Anti-Heroes
February 27, 2024
“I am toying with a certain literary self-consciousness,” says the “Set For Life” author, who joined us in “Open Book” to talk unlikeable characters and literary affairs.
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Lucy Sante on Kafka, Communism, and Comme des Garçons
February 13, 2024
“I was most concerned with explaining myself,” the writer says of her new memoir, which details her transition. “It’s a long explanation of myself to the world.”
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Author Megan Nolan on True Crime and Trauma Plots
February 7, 2024
“I have this thing now where I want every book to be different from the last one,” said the author of “Ordinary Human Failings.”
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Sheila Heti Was Wasting Her Time. Then She’d Written a Book.
February 6, 2024
“It felt more like playing Tetris or something,” the writer says of working on her new book, “Alphabetical Diaries.”
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Bennett Sims on Style, Sebald, and His New Short Story Collection
November 17, 2023
“The one technology that I was concerned about the obsolescence of was Twitter.”
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Myriam Gurba Wants You to Stop Hiding From Death
September 6, 2023
“There’s this knee-jerk reaction to argue that a misogynistic joke is not a joke because a particular party found it unfunny.”
BOOKS
Christopher Bollen and Will Chancellor Talk Fate and Fiction Over Chess
May 9, 2023
“If you read enough Agatha Christie, you can always figure out who the killer is.”
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Debut Novelist Delia Cai on Olive Garden, Central Places, and Interracial Relationships
February 6, 2023
The New York-based writer is turning flyover country into fiction.
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Allie Rowbottom and Tea Hacic-Vlahovic Strip Down to Sell Books
November 22, 2022
“You want to write a book that the right people love, and then everybody else feels confused by or enraged by. That’s a sign that you’re doing something positive.”
Jordan Castro’s The Novelist: Sincerity? Irony? Or Based Autofiction?
June 9, 2022
The alt-lit author spoke to Gideon Jacobs about shitposting, self-promotion, and staying hopeful.
LIT
Novelist Lillian Fishman Shapes a Kinky Love Triangle
April 27, 2022
In her debut novel “Acts of Service,” the author demonstrates a desire to push boundaries.
Director
Denis Villeneuve Takes Guillermo del Toro Inside the World of Dune
October 20, 2021
Two of cinema’s most ambitious visionaries sit down for a conversation about filming the unimaginable.
literature
Novelist Andrew O’Hagan’s New-Wave Ode to Youth and Friendship
May 26, 2021
The Scottish author’s latest novel, “Mayflies,” is a particularly personal project, and a promise fulfilled.