![]() ![]() ![]() In conversation, she selects words and makes literary references with a collector’s care. On the day we met up, she was wearing a seal vertebra tied around her neck and a vintage 1960s coat formerly owned by a French actress she’s recently become obsessed with. She holds an MFA from Columbia University, where she currently teaches.Ī self-proclaimed object person and lifelong collector, Julavits is a woman of exceptional accoutrements. She’s a founding editor of The Believer and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Julavits is the author of four critically acclaimed novels (The Vanishers , The Uses of Enchantment , The Effect of Living Backwards, and The Mineral Palace) and co-editor, with Sheila Heti and Leanne Shapton, of the New York Times bestseller Women in Clothes. Sharp, witty, and endlessly curious, she crafts a self-portrait with candor and easy intimacy, as if she is chatting with a friend. Julavits infuses the everyday - from trawling eBay to gossiping with girlfriends to spinning tops with her son - with cultural criticism and personal reflection. With this prompt, the ordinary becomes a lens through which to investigate the profound. She begins each entry with “Today I” - a formal quirk plucked from her childhood writings. ![]() Her new book, The Folded Clock: A Diary, chronicles her recent return to the original form. As a teen, the term embarrassed her, and she started calling it a journal. ![]()
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