Hello. I live in New York. I grew up in San Francisco and Bolinas. For 12 years I've been a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine. From 2021-2025 I was also a book critic at the newspaper. My journalism and essays have appeared in n+1, New York magazine, The Poetry Foundation and others. In 2018 I founded a books newsletter called Read Like the Wind. It was acquired by the New York Times. There exists a blog where I write about various things. And I write zines. Love zines. My husband Teddy and I moonlight as occasional book publishers. Our most recent project was MIRIAM by Kate Riley, which was excerpted in The Paris Review. In my spare time I make art projects, play ping-pong, frolic in the ocean, garden, and construct crosswords. Here is one. Email: mollybethyoung@gmail.com (I'm not very good with email but I try) Instant-gram: @mollybethyoung Blog: @mollyyoung Tumblr: Amazingly, yes < back