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The inaugural issue of Interview magazine, published in late 1969, billed itself as a “Monthly Film Journal.” The Warhol superstar Viva reclined on the cover—her nude body formed an “H” shape with those of Gerome Ragni and James Rado, the…

I walked to the mailbox and pulled out a sheaf of envelopes that included a letter from Philip Roth. I was twenty-nine and pregnant. I had written a book but assumed that no one would read it—and, anyway, I was…

In the fall of 2007, I sat down to try to write a letter to Philip Roth, whom I’d never met. I’d started many letters to him in the past, only to put each aside, newly frustrated by my inability…