Delia Cai is a writer at Vanity Fair currently living in New York. Her new book Central Places, is out now. We chat about cloutbombing, archival Heavn, reading poetry for an audience, "dead girl voice," what kind of pop-punk girl she was, the fan fiction community, Delia thinks it would be nice to come home to a fifties-style housewife, she wants kids but she doesn't want to stay home and hang out with them, the difference between male and female codependent friendships, getting negged on the train for wearing a bow in her hair, writing her Grub Street diet the week she got broken up with, if TJ has to adjust his demeanor based on his potentially intimidating height, Delia is having a hard time finding people to help with her suitcase, dog systems, the post-brunch breakup, and we discuss a new word she learned in Los Angeles.

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