Most beloved book from childhood
The Cage: A Holocaust Memoir by Ruth Minsky Sender or basically any book about the holocaust - i don't know why
Social media you most use
Instagram
Sally Rooney or Ottessa Moshfegh
Ottessa
Literary website you regularly read
Paris Review
Unrequited love or fast hot affair – better for writing?
Fast hot affair absolutely
Book you read annually
The World According to Garp :)
Literary character you most identify with
The narrator of All Fours by Miranda July, fortunately and unfortunately lol
Favorite Bret Easton Ellis book
You know what. I have never read one...
Writer you’d like to meet irl
Leonard Cohen come back from the dead and make love to me challenge
Library or bookstore
Bookstore. I'm possessive
Best decade for books
I recently read a lot from like, 1915-1930. My Antonia by Willa Cather, Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham, Lady Chatterly's Lover by DH Lawrence, A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf...all bangers.
Midwest or nyc
Both
Do you have a substack
No but I should
Fav book-to-film adaptation
Brokeback Mountain. The source material is the right length for a feature-length film.
Oldest novel you’ve read
Ummm probably The Brothers Karamazov?
Writer on social media you most closely follow
James Frey lowkey
short story you think about most
A Late Encounter with the Enemy by Flannery O'Connor
Literary agent
Want one
Go to coffee/espresso order
Iced Americano black or Iced banana latte or Iced pistachio latte w skim
Last classic novel you couldn’t get through
Moby Dick
Do you keep a journal, handwritten or typed
Handwritten but I need to switch to typed tbh
poet
Yes
Sober or intoxicated
Sober
Best live reader
Me
VM, DM, text or call
text
Go to podcast
Radiolab lol
Favorite memoirist
So funny bc this question sort of means 'favorite life'...Chris Kraus if that counts?
New yorker or Paris review
Paris Review
Writer you wish followed you on social media
Leonard Cohen
Playwright
Oscar Wilde
Fiction or nonfiction
Nonfiction rn, specifically about the Vietnam War
Writer who made you want to be a writer
Lowkey Steve Roggenbuck lol
Literary crush
Leonard Cohen
Greatest piece of literature
Fuck idk...Working by Studs Terkel is p important
