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Kayla Tanenbaum speaks with Emily Witt, author of Future Sex

by Kayla Tanenbaum When Emily Witt pitched Future Sex, she sold it as Gay Talese’s Thy Neighbor’s Wife for the post-internet generation. Emily’s editor suggested that she make Future Sex more personal, and the resulting book—which evolved into a series of essays—fulfills that goal. By

Kayla Tanenbaum speaks with Tim Murphy, author of the novel Christodora

Tim Murphy’s Christodora is a time-traveling, political, historical, educational heartbreaker of a novel. Christodora’s seven main characters are connected in the story by the title’s eponymous building in New York City: the Christodora on the Lower East Side. It delivers a fresh perspective on an oft-explored