Arthur Lubow has been writing for national magazines for forty years. He has been a contributing editor or staff writer for Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and, most recently, The New York Times Magazine. He is the author of a biography of Richard Harding Davis, and most recently published a biography of the photographer Diane Arbus entitled Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer.

Vivian Gornick is a born and bred New Yorker, and her relationship to the city features prominently in her memoirs, most notably in the The Odd Woman and the City. We spoke to her about her love of the city, the female flâneur, odd women, and the state of modern memoir.

We spoke with Rebecca Traister about her new book All the Single Ladies.