Katie Kitamura

Whereas the narrative for the younger character, this young man, is much more linear. It's much clearer because I think it's something within our culture that is much more familiar.

Whereas the narrative for the younger character, this young man, is much more linear. It's much clearer because I think it's something within our culture that is much more familiar.

I think it's something that still feels transgressive, which is in some ways extraordinary. It's a very, very obvious thing to say that an age gap between an older man and a younger woman is something that is overly familiar. I think the inversion of it feels exciting. It feels like it's... centering female desire in a way that is new. And I think it still feels in some way transgressive.

I think it's something that still feels transgressive, which is in some ways extraordinary. It's a very, very obvious thing to say that an age gap between an older man and a younger woman is something that is overly familiar. I think the inversion of it feels exciting. It feels like it's... centering female desire in a way that is new. And I think it still feels in some way transgressive.

I think it's something that still feels transgressive, which is in some ways extraordinary. It's a very, very obvious thing to say that an age gap between an older man and a younger woman is something that is overly familiar. I think the inversion of it feels exciting. It feels like it's... centering female desire in a way that is new. And I think it still feels in some way transgressive.

There's a way in which we know it shouldn't feel transgressive because we all say, hey, if a man did it, nobody would say anything. But at the same time, it is about a desire that culture at large has told women not to have. I don't know about the timing. That is something really really interesting to think about. I mean, it's an interesting question. Why now? Why not five years ago?

There's a way in which we know it shouldn't feel transgressive because we all say, hey, if a man did it, nobody would say anything. But at the same time, it is about a desire that culture at large has told women not to have. I don't know about the timing. That is something really really interesting to think about. I mean, it's an interesting question. Why now? Why not five years ago?

There's a way in which we know it shouldn't feel transgressive because we all say, hey, if a man did it, nobody would say anything. But at the same time, it is about a desire that culture at large has told women not to have. I don't know about the timing. That is something really really interesting to think about. I mean, it's an interesting question. Why now? Why not five years ago?

Why not five years from now? That, I don't know.

Why not five years from now? That, I don't know.

Why not five years from now? That, I don't know.

I've always been really interested in writing outsiders. And I've always been interested in the point of view of somebody who's newly arrived in a place. And so my characters are often like anthropologists who are studying the culture and the mores and the rituals of a place. And they see a place with quite fresh eyes because they don't know very much about it.

I've always been really interested in writing outsiders. And I've always been interested in the point of view of somebody who's newly arrived in a place. And so my characters are often like anthropologists who are studying the culture and the mores and the rituals of a place. And they see a place with quite fresh eyes because they don't know very much about it.

I've always been really interested in writing outsiders. And I've always been interested in the point of view of somebody who's newly arrived in a place. And so my characters are often like anthropologists who are studying the culture and the mores and the rituals of a place. And they see a place with quite fresh eyes because they don't know very much about it.

And that was useful for me as a writer because I think I was trying to figure out as well what the terrain of the novel was. I think I felt after four novels that maybe I had the skills to write about the place I knew very, very well without that kind of shield of discovery. New York is an intimidating city to write about. There's a lot of fiction that is set in New York.

And that was useful for me as a writer because I think I was trying to figure out as well what the terrain of the novel was. I think I felt after four novels that maybe I had the skills to write about the place I knew very, very well without that kind of shield of discovery. New York is an intimidating city to write about. There's a lot of fiction that is set in New York.

And that was useful for me as a writer because I think I was trying to figure out as well what the terrain of the novel was. I think I felt after four novels that maybe I had the skills to write about the place I knew very, very well without that kind of shield of discovery. New York is an intimidating city to write about. There's a lot of fiction that is set in New York.

It's a city that I've lived in for decades. 15 years, but I still don't think I quite have the nerve to call myself a New Yorker, really. But this character is so dislocated in her life that the sense of dislocation that I often have relied on location to achieve, I think here was much more internal. There is, as I said, so many stories that have been set here, and that is a kind of...

It's a city that I've lived in for decades. 15 years, but I still don't think I quite have the nerve to call myself a New Yorker, really. But this character is so dislocated in her life that the sense of dislocation that I often have relied on location to achieve, I think here was much more internal. There is, as I said, so many stories that have been set here, and that is a kind of...

It's a city that I've lived in for decades. 15 years, but I still don't think I quite have the nerve to call myself a New Yorker, really. But this character is so dislocated in her life that the sense of dislocation that I often have relied on location to achieve, I think here was much more internal. There is, as I said, so many stories that have been set here, and that is a kind of...