Judy Chicurel is the author of If I Knew You Were Going to be This Beautiful, I Never Would Have Let You Go. Her work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, Newsday, Granta and Lithub, among others. She is currently writing her next novel.
Patrick Ryan discusses his new collection The Dream Life of Astronauts, the “bad old days,” and the human need to believe that everything will turn out okay in the end (even when we know it won’t).