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Lay It Down

People love John Samson Fellows’s music. He doesn’t want to make it anymore.

Out Around the Bay

When Wanda bought the house, she didn’t imagine that anyone in the community would recognize that she and Lynn were queer.

The Rise of the Femoir

How the bare-all confessional gave female comedians a break—and then broke their legs (it’s a metaphor).

How Should a Person House-Sit?

Reading Sheila Heti’s latest novel in Sheila Heti’s apartment. While feeding her rabbit. And wearing her lipstick.

The Importance of Being Andy

Considering Andy Warhol on the 25th anniversary of his death; considering how Hitch considered Warhol in 1996 (when this now out-of-print article was originally published).

Checking in with Calvin Trillin, Part 1

The first in a series of chats with Calvin Trillin, the man who—among many other things—casts the U.S. presidential campaign in iambic pentameter.

Werner Herzog: The Director is Present

Filmmaking at the border of life and death.