The short-fiction writer says she feels exposed by her book, and wants to clarify a few points.
Before that, she was a child growing up in Los Angeles. She attended Bennington College because she loved Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, and Bret Easton Ellis, and thought Vermont was one of the most beautiful places she’d ever seen. NY Tyrant published one of her short stories just over a week before her college graduation; The New Yorker published her flash fiction the following July.
My grandma, by 26, she had three kids. There’s that thing: My parents at 30: Let’s buy a house, let’s get married. Me at 30: Chicken nugget. You were quoted in an article on a resurgence of Catholicism in New York— I didn’t fully read that. It was just so mortifying. “Is Catholicism the hot new trend in New York?” Sorry that my friends and I go to the same church. The New York Times, they’re reporting on tiny things that are making a thing into a thing. And I love that—mythmaking.
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