Readings

‘In Isolation, Everything Has More Meaning’: An Interview with Ottessa Moshfegh

The author of Death in Her Hands on putting characters in blank spaces, crime solving, and consumption. 

'The Promises of Pleasure, Freedom, Excitement, Opportunity, and Encounter': An Interview with Leslie Kern

The author of Feminist City on intersectional urban planning, care work, and feminist geography. 

Water or Sky?

This wasn't the first time I had become obsessed with drowning.

‘The Most Honest Version of How Other People See Us’: An Interview with Naoise Dolan

The author of Exciting Times on spreading goodwill, navigating and honouring difference, and the lie of meritocracy.

'There Are Plenty of Readers For Whom Plot is Not the Be-All and End-All': An Interview with Eimear McBride

Talking to the author of Strange Hotel about the tolerance and patience of readers, writing "difficult" books, and the urgency that comes with age.

Paper Faces on Parade

Sanctioning the buffoonery of Joel Schumacher.

'You Can Sing an Alternate Reality': An Interview with Sasha Geffen

Talking to the author of Glitter Up the Dark about Savage Garden as entry-point to fandom, missing shitty clubs in the midst of a pandemic, and Britney Spears's communist reblogs.

Perverts Like Us

There was a creative storytelling aspect to sex, and a form of intimacy we didn't share with boys.

'There Are Pernicious Trends and Ideologies That I See Enduring': An Interview with Rachel Vorona Cote

The author of Too Much on who gets to be excessive, whether Victorian protagonists would get along, and the privilege of seeing yourself in literature.