Laura Kipnis is the author of "How to Become a Scandal, Against Love, " and "The Female Thing". A professor in the Department of Radio/TV/Film at Northwestern University, she has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the NEA. Her writing has appeared in "The New York Times", "Harper s", " Slate", and?"Bookforum", among others. She lives in New York and Chicago.