Interview with Ashley Nelson Levy

What are 5 things you would want to find?

1. More literature in translation

2. Rain for California

3. My father’s old diary

4. Letters from my grandparents

5. An illustrated book that my friend Kassy and I made when we were kids featuring a cat detective

What are 5 things you would want to hide? 

1. My search history

2. Parsley

3. Cockroaches

4. Fox News

5. All the lipsticks that my son likes to steal

If you could choose anywhere in the world for your book to be hidden, where would it be and why?

Definitely somewhere in the town where I grew up—in the library, or tucked in a wall of my childhood home.

If you could find any book, which would it be and why?

More of anything from the brilliant Janet Malcolm.  

Who would you want to find your book (another author, celebrity, et cetera)?

A younger version of myself on a tough writing day.