Readings

The author of How the Word is Passed on writing through the lens of fatherhood, reckoning with the past and confronting difficult histories, and the beauty that can rise from pain.

The author of Damn Shame on finding the universal, empathy and the X-Files. 

For centuries, queerness and horror have been intertwined, horror relying on queerness for shock and pungency, and queerness relying on horror for visibility and validation. 

The author of All’s Well on dark academia, Shakespearean witches, and the tragicomedy of chronic pain

The author of Jam Bake on flavour libraries, candied fruit and making things with your hands that taste good. 

The author of Seek You on recognizing obsessions, Sandra Bullock, and separating solitude and loneliness. 

Julia Child's collaborator Simone Beck has lingered as an object of pity in public memory. But maybe Beck didn’t want stardom at all.

Talking to the author of Virtue about writing as shedding self-consciousness, the impossibility of living an uncompromised life in a compromised world, and Toni Morrison's bathroom.

Talking to the author of Imperial Nostalgia about the complex British relationship to class, culture war diversions, and toppling statues.