Amy Fusselman on Writing as Performance

“It’s bliss. It’s fucking bliss. That’s why I do it, it’s amazing. It’s an opening. It’s a drug, for sure. And maybe there’s no one present, but my brains’s exploded. Who doesn’t want that?”

Amy Fusselman is the author of five books. Her latest, The Mean$, is her first novel. Fusselman’s previous four books, all nonfiction, have been translated into several languages. Her work has been nominated for The Believer Book Award and the University of Iowa's Krause Essay Prize. Her articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Ms., ARTnews, Artnet, and many other places. She lives in New York City with her family and teaches creative writing at New York University.