Author Questionnaires

Why We’re Not More Social

21 Questions with Nicholas Epley on conversation, creativity, and the psychology of connection

May 22 • Panio Gianopoulos

A Year of Living With AI

21 Questions with Joanna Stern on AI, authorship, and the future of creative work

May 15 • Panio Gianopoulos and Joanna Stern

The Writing Life Is Physical

21 Questions with Manoush Zomorodi on reclaiming the body from modern work

May 8 • Panio Gianopoulos and Manoush Minutes

What It Means to Keep Going

21 Questions with Marisa Renee Lee on moving forward in the face of uncertainty.

Apr 24 • Panio Gianopoulos and Marisa Renee Lee

How We Change—and Why We Don’t

21 Questions with Benoit Denizet-Lewis on identity, reinvention, and the limits of transformation

Apr 17 • Panio Gianopoulos

Adventures in Everyday Economics

21 Questions with Alex Mayyasi on how to find ideas hiding in plain sight.

Apr 10 • Panio Gianopoulos and Alex Mayyasi

Somehow, This Is Working

21 Questions with Jenny Lawson

Apr 3 • Panio Gianopoulos and Jenny Lawson (thebloggess)

Writing at the Edge of What We Know

Theoretical physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein on craft, curiosity, and the cosmic questions that drive her work

Mar 27 • Panio Gianopoulos and Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

The Offhand Remark That Became a Book

Anthony Klotz on research, writing, and the career “jolts” that change everything

Mar 21 • Panio Gianopoulos

Writing Without Excess

21 Questions with Simon Kuper, author of World Cup Fever

Mar 20 • Panio Gianopoulos

One Hundred Drafts Later

Daniel Coyle on curiosity, community, and the carpentry of writing.

Mar 13 • Panio Gianopoulos

How Pain Becomes a Book

Darcey Steinke answers our 21 Questions about the writing life

Mar 6 • Panio Gianopoulos

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