Anna Fitzpatrick

The author of A Bit Much on anticipatory grief, huge emotions, and the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. 

“I’m not afraid of a dare,” I said. “I’ll do whatever.”

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. 

The author of In the Dream House on gaslighting, the lack of institutional capacity for change, and formal experimentation. 

The author of Who Put This Song On? on emo, mental health, and the Obama years. 

The author of The Man Who Saw Everything on modernist structure, novelistic characters, and David Lynch. 

By twenty-seven I was supposed to be well on my way to stability, or at least the illusion of such. Instead, my life had increasingly taken on a scrappy plainness.

On the television lives of two spooky primetime families, the Addams and the Munsters.

The author of Collected Tarts and Other Indelicacies on The Simpsons, pranks, and saying hello to puppies.