A moderated discussion with The Mount’s 2018 Writers-in-Residence: Elif Batuman, Buzzy Jackson and Kate Reed Petty, moderated by 2017 Writer-in-Residence Christene Barberich. Elif Batuman is a staff writer for The New Yorker and author of The Idiot, Buzzy Jackson is the award-winning nonfiction author of Shaking the Family Tree, and Kate Reed Petty is the author of the forthcoming children’s graphic novel Chasma Knights. Christene Barberich was a 2017 Writer-in-Residence at The Mount and is the global editor-in-chief & co-founder of Refinery29.