CAAF: Afternoon coffee

• Maud Newton’s extraordinary essay, “Conversations You Have at Twenty,” can now be read online at Narrative Magazine. The essay took second prize in the magazine’s Love Story Contest and will be published next year as part of the Cross My Heart, Hope You Die anthology.
• Sarah Weinman interviews Kathryn Harrison about her new book, While They Slept, which Sarah describes as “a fascinating hybrid of journalism, narrative, and memoir.”