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 Possbilities are vast, but in the current media climate, it is hard to feel complacent about the technological manipulation of reality when its potential disruption is so easy to imagine May 1, 2018 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 April 12, 2018