Amy Benfer is a freelance writer living in Brooklyn.

• June/July 2007: Interview with Kevin Barnes
  Intensely fun songs informed by Ray Davies, Roald Dahl, David Bowie, Edward Gorey, the wife, Georges Bataille, and Anaïs Nin.
• December 2003/January 2004: The Training Bras of Literature
  The allure of Sweet Valley High—despite its simplistic moralizing and evil brunettes—is almost impossible to resist.