Yea, As If They Know What They’re Doing

"To Yanagihara, the commitment to journalism is a vital expression of the practical side of her nature: she likes the adrenaline of short deadlines and the satisfaction of making a new product each week." The Guardian profiles Hanya Yanagihara about her life, fiction, and day job as the editor of T magazine, the New York Times style supplement. From our archives: The Millions' interview with the acclaimed novelist.

"You mean people who are now in their twenties? They won't care. People who are in their twenties will have already done this stuff, so there's now a record. When those people are old enough to be in charge of things—which by the way I don't ever want them to be in charge of things, and luckily, I will be dead when these people take over—everybody will have that vulnerability. When everybody is vulnerable to something it's not a weapon." Fran Lebowitz talks to The Awl about old New York, writer's block, and why the politicians of the future won't have sex tapes.