(Rachel Kippen/Contributed) I read the book Tuck Everlasting as a child and hoped beyond hope that we’d somehow all drink from the spring of life and death would not come for me or my family.

Rachel Kippen is an ocean educator and sustainability advocate in Santa Cruz County and can be reached at [email protected].

Rachel Kushner, center, and Ottessa Moshfegh, right, field questions from David Ulin at the L.A. Times Festival of Books on Saturday at USC.

Rachel Comey’s collaboration with The New York Review of Books is the latest flirtation between the fashion and literary worlds. Credit...Dolly Faibyshev for The New York Times Supported by By ...