Living Less in the Future: The Millions Interviews Rachel Krantz

I read Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-Monogamy in a single day and night, unable to put it down. Whether it was the complex and heartrending story of award-winning journalist Rachel Krantz’s first non-monogamous relationships or the contextual research that she uses to put her personal experiences in service of an examination of larger questions, I was gripped. When I finished, I felt like I’d lived a different life. I felt, too, like my understanding of the world had been sharpened and enlarged.

Already highly anticipated, Open brings an investigative reporter’s commitment to documenting and analyzing information in service of revealing larger social and political truths. Krantz combines this with a memoirist’s ability to use insights into the self and the nuances of one person’s life lived among others to tell an entrancing story while also helping the reader better understand the human condition.

Krantz had read my debut story collection, too, , and we exchanged voice memos and texts about our work’s shared interest in gender, love, intimacy, and desire, along with the question of using documentation as a