Author

Joanna Scutts

Joanna Scutts is a historian, critic and curator based in New York. She is the author of "The Extra Woman: How Marjorie Hillis Led a Generation of Women to Live Alone and Like It" (Liveright/W.W. Norton, 2017.

Altered states of storytelling at the L.A. Times Festival of Books

Altered states of storytelling at the L.A. Times Festival of Books

The L.A. Times Book Festival, held over the weekend of April 21-22, is an annual celebration of reading and literary culture in a town often stereotyped as not exactly bookish.…
It came from the sewers of London: the utterly disgusting (yet fascinating) fatberg

It came from the sewers of London: the utterly disgusting (yet fascinating) fatberg

In The New York Times Magazine's quirky "Letter of Recommendation" column, Nicola Twilley examines the charms of a monstrous subterranean clot formed by the detritus of a genteel city