LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, LISA CRYSTAL CARVER

an amazing interview with one of my personal heroes. a few people have asked me recently if i regret the last year and a half and i always say no, and i think that’s partly because i have absorbed, as much as someone who has some melancholic predilections could, lisa’s adventurous attitude towards life. in this interview she talks about memoir-writing, zines, and performance art; plus ada calhoun, an editor who was important to her life, and mine—not just because we did 90swoman together, but because ada ran my first non-beauty, non-teen story after i left teen vogue, when i still didn’t know if anyone was going to take me seriously as a writer; and about dissociative states, which is apparently what i went into twice this year, including the night i ended up in the hospital, and i commend lisa for talking about dissociating, because it’s pretty scary stuff. lisa carver is the best. 

(Source: arianareines)