Glynnis MacNichol

So on some degree, you sort of understand it as the end of a movie in a way.

I don't know.

I think late 90s New York sort of exists as...

this strange last moment of like pre-internet, pre-9-11 New York that she represents.

And I do think had she not died and been so associated with my first years in New York, which are so magical, like your first New York is the New York

that stands in your mind as what New York is, right?

It's your first understanding of the city and how it functions.

And you're always measuring the city against it.

And she, to me, is so tied to that.

She had made such an impact on me at the time.

I almost think about her with tenderness or care.

To me, her life is, her marriage to JFK Jr.

represented those first years in the city to me.

In that sense, I think she continues to hold my attention because she was so fascinating to me at the time.

It's a line in the book.

When I landed in Paris, it's about the five weeks I spent in August 2021, when we were released a little bit briefly from COVID lockdown.

And I had been alone, like alone, unseen, untouched for the better part of a year.

I landed and

dove headfirst into like every pleasurable hedonistic thing I could find.

And I was on some of the apps there and the men in Paris would say, what are you looking for here?