Readings

Talking with the author of Here I Am about different notions of home, the downsides of television development, and whether or not he'll ever write another book.

Butches, Femmes, and Mobsters: Inside the world of America's early drag superstars.

Talking with the author of Beatlebone about fictionalizing the life of John Lennon, the hard time Kate Bush gets in the book, and why rock novels are almost always disasters.

Notes on—and against—ambition.

My desire to live without violence aligned nicely with my desire to be thin—at least on the outside.

There is freedom that comes with the chaos of Athens, and that freedom is written all over its walls. 

Talking to the author of The Last Days of New Paris about applying a video game sensibility to fiction, redeeming and finding inspiration in the politics of the Surrealists, and when to add demons.

The author wrote what she knew, but also what she believed, what she feared, and what she was constantly trying to run away from.

Notes on two afternoons with the playwright who gave us Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Zoo Story.