Most beloved book from childhood

The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams.


Social media you most use

X.


Sally Rooney or Ottessa Moshfegh

I've read two Sally Rooney books and thought they were okay. I haven't read Moshfegh, yet.


Unrequited love or fast hot affair – better for writing?

Irrelevant to my writing.


Literary character you most identify with

I don't identify with characters.


Favorite Bret Easton Ellis book

American Psycho.


Writer you’d like to meet irl

All of them.


Library or bookstore

Library. Fuck bookstores.


Best decade for books

The Twenties, either 19-- or 20--.


Do you have a substack

Yes. @conorhultman.


Fav book-to-film adaptation

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? to Blade Runner (1982).


Oldest novel you’ve read

Daphnis and Chloe by Longus, second century A.D.


Writer on social media you most closely follow

Elizabeth Ellen.


Short story you think about most

"Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk" by Kafka.


Literary agent

Don't, yet.


Go to coffee/espresso order

Large black hot coffee with a lot of whole milk.


Last classic novel you couldn’t get through

I commit to finish every book I start, but I have a bookmark stuck in David Copperfield from two Xmases ago.


Do you keep a journal, handwritten or typed

No.


Poet

Guillaume Apollinaire.


Sober or intoxicated

Stimulants.


Best live reader

John Padula.


Go to podcast

Red Scare, Victim Radio.


Favorite memoirist

Kafka.


New yorker or Paris review

The Paris Review.


Writer you wish followed you on social media

Tao Lin.


Playwright

Sarah Kane.


Fiction or nonfiction

Fiction.


VM, DM, text or call

Text.


Writer who made you want to be a writer

Calvin Westra.