Joy Lanzendorfer’s work has been in The Atlantic, Smithsonian, Tin House, the Guardian, NPR, Vice, and many others. Follow her @JoyLanzendorfer.

Joy Lanzendorfer

Haunted by Houses: On the California Victorian in Fiction

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Joy Lanzendorfer’s work has been in The Atlantic, Smithsonian, Tin House, the Guardian, NPR, Vice, and many others. Follow her @JoyLanzendorfer.