The author of Lapvona on making a writer’s cave of her bed Ottessa Moshfegh doesn’t have to travel far from bed to write each morning–because bed is often her preferred place to write, usually but not only in the mornings. “Being in bed arrests a bit of my anxiety so that I can focus,” she […]
“It’s Too Far! Back to the Car!”
“Vaginal Davis then launched into an impromptu performance where she must have sung every single song in Judy Garland’s catalog, with a few Liza numbers thrown in for good measure. Thurston Moore was over the moon.”
Do You Believe in Alfred Chester?
Voyage to Destruction blends Alfred Chester’s legend with his craft, for once on his own terms
A Little Sun, a Little Rain
“One day I woke up and I understood how unexplored this city is, all these invisible ties between cultures.”
Diary of a Dipshit
My therapist told me I had every symptom a woman molested as a girl presents in treatment.
On Giving Up
“I believe people who say that The Sound and the Fury becomes great when you get to the second part or, ideally, when you read the whole thing for the second time; what you rarely hear is how to get through the first part for the first time.”
Heart Tattoo
‘Left the party without telling anyone.
Moved to Miami without telling anyone.
Vials of K with a blond in Divinity School.
Lines of blow with a blond who took crypto.’
Ukraine
Two Fussy Linguists
“I went to a doctor in the 1980s in New York; he said I shouldn’t get HIV-tested at that point because then the feds would know about it. But he did tell me that I had a vestigial third nipple.” – Wayne Koestenbaum
Ten books chosen by William Boyd
It took William Boyd three failed attempts at writing a novel before he hit gold with A Good Man in Africa, which won him both the Whitbread Book Award for a first novel and the Somerset Maugham Award. That was in 1981, and Boyd hasn’t stopped to draw breath since. His 16th novel, Trio, was […]
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