Writer | Alessandra DiMona

Learning to Work by Virginia Valian

loved

“People said this crop of youth was weak, but we knew differently. We knew they were so strong -- so much stronger than us, and equipped...

THE LOSER THING

From the archive: Rhonda Lieberman on the art of failure “While no one is making masterpieces anymore, no one is trying to make them...

WIR 3/10/23

In bed - 2 essays from Camille Paglia Provocations because it was on the bedside table. "The Italian Way of Death" and "Women in Magic in...

Constance Debré and Chris Kraus on queer identity, casual sex and the politics of refusal via Granta

Constance Debré is the author of Play Boy, winner of the 2018 Coupole Prize, and Love Me Tender, translated from the French by Holly...

UNCENSORED: CAMILLE PAGLIA ON RIHANNA, IDENTITY POLITICS, AND SEXUALITY

The social critic and academic queen of controversy opens up in a candid interview with V. March 27, 2017 TEXT: ALEX KAZEMI Camille...

reading with a.h.

The Trials of the Young: A Semester by MARY GAITSKILL

In 2014 I was hired, for two consecutive spring semesters, to teach writing and literature at one of the officially happiest colleges in...

another heartbreaker

“I warned you, he says, I warned you, Harry, but youth is deaf. Youth is careless.”

My Writing Education: A Time Line by George Saunders

George Saunders and his wife, Paula, in 1986. February 1986 Tobias Wolff calls my parents’ house in Amarillo, Texas, leaves a message:...

Alessandra DiMona is a writer in Los Angeles