What are 5 things you would want to find?

1. An act-The perfect martini

2. A round the world plane ticket

3. A key to a secret garden

4. That the Los Angeles Trader Vic’s never closed, it’s still on the corner of Wilshire and Santa Monica and looks exactly the same

5. Astier de Villatte incense

What are 5 things you would want to hide? 

1. Old (and bad) short stories

2. All my notebooks

3. My messy desk

4. The trouble I get into after a few cocktails

5. High school year book photos!

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

I would hide it in this little beach club in Puglia called ArcheoLido Egnazia. Their bar is a small rickety shack of tied together reeds and dried grass, and it’s on the cliffs overlooking the Adriatic. Definitely there, because then you could read The Worst Kind of Want in situ.

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

I would love to stumble onto an early edition of Jean Rhys’s Good Morning Midnight while in an old bookstore in Paris. Rhys’s work has had a huge influence on me, and she adored Paris. She said the light there is always pink. I love that.

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

I think as an author you hope more than anything that your book finds its readers—meaning those who relate and communicate with the book on a deeper level. So in that sense the person I’d want to find The Worst Kind of Want is  anyone who connects with it. But also Joan Didion, because that would be the coolest thing EVER.