Halley Feiffer is Now an Optimist, but—don’t worry—she’s still angry at the patriarchy

The Interval: Halley Feiffer has turned the fireplace in her Brooklyn apartment into a bookcase, and one of the books in that bookcase is Jonathan Franzen’s Purity, a copy of which also resides in my bookcase, which is the standard non-fireplace variety. It’s one of those books your eye goes to whether you want it to or not because it’s large and white—after all, it is named Purity.