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Katie Roiphe is the author of The Morning After: Sex, Fear and Feminism, Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Marriages, In Praise of Messy Lives: Essays and a novel, Still She Haunts Me. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, the Paris Review, Vogue, Esquire, Slate, Tin House and elsewhere. She has a Ph.D. in literature from Princeton University and teaches at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. Her new book, The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End, was published by Dial Press (March 8, 2016).
On your nightstand now:
Mary Wollstonecraft's The Vindication of Rights; Simone de Beauvoir's The Woman Destroyed; Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts.
Favorite book when you were a child:
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh.
Your top five authors:
Edith Wharton, Leo Tolstoy, Virginia Woolf, Janet Malcolm and James Salter.
Book you're an evangelist for:
Siri Hustvedt's The Blazing World and Alfred Hayes's In Love.
Book you've bought for the cover:
Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life (well, not really...).
Book you hid from your parents:
Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews.
Book that changed your life:
Hmmm... too many to say.
Favorite line from a book:
"So quick bright things come to confusion." --A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
Five books you'll never part with:
John Berryman's The Dream Songs, Mary McCarthy's The Company She Keeps, Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, James Salter's Light Years, Anthony Trollope's Can You Forgive Her?
Book you most want to read again for the first time:
Any Proust book.