Hi Molly. What are you doing now?
I am actually just sitting on my fire escape drinking a milkshake. I live in Chinatown in New York, in a really great old former tenement building. It's really classic, and I went to this website where you can look up addresses, and I found out it was built in 1901, which is very exciting.

How long have you lived in New York?
Exactly a year. I moved here right after school. I graduated from Brown in Providence, and I studied what they call 'literary arts.' But in the yearbook, next to my name, there was a typo and it says 'literacy arts.' I fell off the bed laughing when I saw that, it's really, really perfect.

What made you want to move to New York?
I actually originally moved to LA, and had a horrible The Day of the Locust experience and moved to New York three months later. I just really like it here, I think as far as writing goes, it is a lot easier to live in a place that is the center of the publishing industry. You just end up in social circles with people you want to work with, and that makes it easier. I only moved to LA because I secretly wanted to move to New York, but didn't want to do the easy thing. It was this internal backlash that totally backfired.

Have you always wanted to be a writer?
It isn't so much that I always wanted to be a writer, so much as it was the only thing I could do. I spent a lot of time as a child, trying to cultivate different hobbies, I really wanted to do anything but writing, but I was never good enough at any of it to make a living.

In college, did you work on the newspaper or literary mag, or anything like that?
I worked on the newspaper in college, it was the alterna-newspaper. I wasn't good enough at copy-editing to work on the real newspaper, but the alterna one was staffed by what I thought were the coolest kids.

What kind of writing do you enjoy most?
I am kind of getting a chance to do a lot of different kinds right now. I am working on the official blog for Where the Wild Things Are, and that's just very casual, blog-style writing. I am also working on something that I guess I can't say much about it, but it's a top-secret Hollywood project, a screenplay, which is very exciting. I am also writing a novel. I write for a whole bunch of different magazines—I write for Maxim, and this intellectual journal called N+1. I've written for fashion magazines, and the variety keeps me from getting bored.

How did you end up doing the Where the Wild Things Are blog?
Well, I have my personal blog, and this writer from LA saw that and liked it, and we sort of communicated a little bit, and then he was asked to assemble the staff, and he thought of me. That was just a lucky break.

How long have you had your personal blog?
Well, in one form or another, I've had it for five years. I taught myself HTML in sixth grade. The cool thing to do then was chat on AOL, but for some reason, I was too socially-anxious to do that, so I taught myself to make websites. So I had a personal website called Magic Molly, but now it's just a blog.

What are your favorite things to write about?
I sort of view it as a tool to... gosh, I've never really thought about it like this. It's sort of little experiences, small interactions, little things that I notice, little things that I eat and read. It's really small, because they are very short entries.