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Join author and New York Magazine writer Rachel Corbett (The Monsters We Make (W.W. Norton, 2025);You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin (W.W. Norton, 2016)) in this fascinating conversation with Peter Mendelsund about criminal profiling, journalism and the creative process.
Hosted and introduced by J. Mae Barizo.
Presented by the Creative Writing Program at The New School for Social Research.
Rachel Corbett is a features writer at New York Magazine and the author of You Must Change Your Life (Norton, 2016), which won the Marfield Prize, the National Award for Arts Writing, and The Monsters We Make (Norton, 2025), for which she was awarded a Howard Foundation creative nonfiction fellowship. She has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and other publications. She grew up in Iowa and lives in New York City.
Peter Mendelsund is the author of seven books. Weepers (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); Exhibitionist (Farrar, Straus & Giroux);The Delivery (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); Same Same (Vintage); What We See When We Read (Vintage) Cover (The New Republic); and The Look of the Book. He is a fledgling painter, a defunct graphic designer, and a recovering classical pianist.
.J. Mae Barizo is a poet, essayist, and artist who works at the intersections of poetics, media, and performance. She is the author of three books of poetry; Becoming Hybrid, her book of essays on transdisciplinary theory, is forthcoming in 2027. She was an artist resident at Baryshnikov Arts and her monodrama "Cloud Variations" had its world premiere at Carnegie Hall in 2025. She teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing at The New School.
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