There are writers who won’t let you forget them, and then there are writers who don’t seem to care if you never hear their name again. Natasha Stagg falls into the latter category, and her ambivalence makes her all the more alluring. She is the author of a novel, Surveys, and the book Sleeveless, a perfect indictment of downtown’s nightlife and publishing worlds in the 2010s, and has for years been the invisible hand behind a number of fashion’s coolest brands.
At 25, Doreen St. Félix was one of the youngest staff hires in the history of The New Yorker. She then won the National Magazine Award for criticism. Allergic, perhaps, to being pigeonholed as a prodigy, she has doggedly demonstrated range, seamlessly taking over the role of the magazine’s TV critic from Emily Nussbaum only to casually abandon the fixed beat after two years to pursue other interests. That St. Félix is working on a novella and a screenplay comes as no surprise.
