POSTSCRIPT: A Conversation with the Future

Which three authors, living or dead, would I invite to a dinner party? I’d prefer a conversation with the future, so I’d invite young writers publishing today: Édouard Louis, Gabriel Bump, and Eric Cervini. I would ask them to share their thoughts on the power of autobiographical writing, the essential role that knowing history plays, how economics and politics shapes literature as well as life, and how storytelling might change in the years to come. I also would ask Louis about his friends Juliet Binoche and Catherine Deneuve. You cannot have a good dinner party without a little diva worship.