Laurie Stone is author of six books of fiction, memoir, criticism, and hybrid writing, most recently Streaming Now, Postcards from the Thing that is Happening (Dottir Press 2022), longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. She was a longime writer for The Village Voice, theater critic for The Nation, and critic-at-large on Fresh Air. More recently, she has written regularly for N+1, Paris Review, and Evergreen Review. She writes the literary Substack Everything is Personal, with over 11,500 subscribers, that Lit Hub recently named one of the seven best literary publications on Substack. She frequently collaborates on writing and teaching projects with her life partner Richard Toon. You can subscribe to her Substack for free or with paid support at: lauriestone.substack.com/subscribe.