Hilary Leichter on Living in Discombobulated Wonder

Sylvie Rosokoff

“I don’t know if I could have written it in a way that wasn’t absurd, because absurdity felt like the most natural and truthful way of being.”

Hilary Leichter is the author of the novel Temporary, which was shortlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her writing has appeared in n+1, The New Yorker, Harper's, The New York Times, and New York Magazine's The Cut. She teaches fiction at Columbia University and has been awarded fellowships from the Folger Shakespeare Library and the New York Foundation for the Arts.