Author: Evan Karp

Elif Batuman, author of The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them (2010), was working on a book inspired by a Chekhov character who describes himself as having two distinct lives. “One is the open one that everyone can see, and the other one is running its course in secret,” Batuman said by Read More

Shortly after Dixie De La Tour moved to the Bay Area, she received an invitation that would change her life. “I used to have a very boring day job,” she said by phone, “and then my life was made more exciting by the fact that I fell down the rabbit hole and discovered sex parties. Read More