I Could Make a Pun About Mansfield Park,
But Then Again, I Probably Shouldn't

Rachel Kramer Bussel's back in the Gothamist interviewer's seat, and she starts her latest cycle by speaking with Genevieve Field, the former Nerve.com founder (well, you can never really be a former founder, but you know what I mean) and current editor of Sex and Sensibility, an anthology of women writers addressing life among the singletons. The roster includes several of my favorite authors, such as Elissa Schappell, Lily Burana, Lynn Harris, and Jennifer Weiner. But not, Field admits, herself:

"I actually wrote the essay that I might have written for the book in Glamour [February 2005 issue, on mistakes she made while dating and the lessons she learned from them]. I think it’s important to look at the things you did wrong along the way to make a good go at the relationship you end up in and I did a lot of things wrong. I feel that as an editor at Nerve and now at Glamour, I’ve really made a career out of making people write about difficult things and be open about things that are more easily held close to the chest. I feel that I owe it to those writers to be open as a writer myself, and I like to focus on my mistakes."