Five Big Questions: Jessie Gaynor
Plus the funniest book I've read all year.
Welcome to this week’s installment of Five Big Questions, the short interview series where awesome people share a bit about who they are and what moves them.
Today’s guest is Jessie Gaynor, author of the smart and hilarious debut novel The Glow, which just landed yesterday. Her work has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The New Yorker, WSJ Magazine, and elsewhere. She is also a senior editor at Literary Hub, and has an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Rona Jaffe fellow. She lives in Richmond, Virginia, with her family.
Here’s Jessie, in her own words.