Declan Tan dmtan.wordpress.com is a borderline freelance journalist from London. He has also written small amounts of fiction and poetry, for the internet and for paper.
Mallory Ortberg discusses their new book, The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror, what it means to be a self-taught writer, and questioning gender.
We know one another’s stories—so S can complain about her husband and I can bitch about my kids without a lot of caveats. We converse in fragments, in the moments the band has gone quiet, yet still understand one another.