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 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.… 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