Ariel Levy, a New Yorker staff writer, is the author of The Rules Do Not Apply.

“I don’t believe in ‘would this’ and ‘would that.’ There’s no ‘everything happens for a reason.’ Everything happens, and then you just fucking deal. I mean we could play that game with everything, but time only moves in one direction. That’s a bad game. You shouldn’t play that game—you’ll break your own heart.”

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Levy on Longform
[00:45] The Front Row
[01:00] Outside the Box
[02:15] Levy’s New Yorker archive
[02:30] Ariel Levy on the Longform Podcast
[02:30] The Rules Do Not Apply: A Memoir (Random House • 2017)
[13:00] Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture (Free Press • 2005)
[20:00] Fan Club
[24:15] "Thanksgiving in Mongolia" (New Yorker • Nov 2013)
[25:30] "Trial by Twitter" (New Yorker • Aug 2013)
[25:30] "The Perfect Wife" (New Yorker • Sep 2013)
[25:45] "Breaking the Waves" (New Yorker • Feb 2014)
[25:45] "Living-Room Leopards" (New Yorker • May 2013)