A discussion and book club about Elena Ferrante's "The Lying Life of Adults," featuring Ann Goldstein, Ferrante's American translator, and Michael Reynolds of Europa Editions, moderated by novelist Rachel Lyon.

In Hong’s essay on her fraught relationships with female friends during college, the topic of mental illness goes largely unaddressed—as it often is in Asian American culture.

The City We Became isn’t simply a jarring attack on white privilege, it’s a necessary nudge towards reality…By inverting white savior tropes, Jemisin shows how systemic advantages have weakened cities while diversity remains their strengths.

“The beach was empty, the water calm, but on a pole a few meters from shore a red flag was waving.”

“In the factory—she had immediately understood—overwork drove people to want to have sex not with their wife or husband in their own house… but there, at work, morning or afternoon.”

I’ve never had an office, apart from the sad, windowless closet I occupied as a grad student. I don’t own a desk. Some days I work at my kitchen table, but more often I sit on my couch or in bed with my computer on my lap. Music, rather than location, is what grounds me as I write.