Recent Work

The Back Story’s Leah Rose interviewed Julia Scott on the high highs, low lows, and endless trade-offs of the group relationship.

“So are you guys in an equilateral triangle, or are you more of a V?” A dark-haired woman leans over to an eager-looking young couple seated next to her and holds up her thumb and forefinger. Each of the V signifies a person; the fleshy connective tissue between them stands for the partner to whom they’re both sexually connected.

New book by Julia Scott features terrible early writing by established authors who really ought to have known better than to trust her with their work.

There is a certain kind of bad writing that occurs when you are between the ages of 16 and 24 and have an audience of one. ‘Self-indulgent’ doesn’t begin to describe it, and in fact to do so would minimize the intense feeling of urgency of budding writers of a certain age who feel called to bear witness to our years of transition.

Julia Scott is interviewed by OnPoint host John Donovan about her New York Times article, “A Wash On the Wild Side.”

I went 28 days without applying soaps, shampoo or deodorant while I tested out an invisible live bacterial body spray that promised to leave my skin feeling cleaner and more hydrated. Here’s what happened next.

I got a very odd magazine assignment that involved applying live bacteria for a month — and giving up my normal soaps and shampoos. What did my co-workers have to say about my “bacteria experiment”?