A Conversation with Ashton Politanoff

One Saturday in May 2020, I received a message with a subject line reading, “Politanoff gold mine, please attend!” The attached manuscript, sent by Diane Williams to the senior editors of the literary annual NOON, included early versions of many of the texts that became Los Angeles author Ashton Politanoff’s debut book You’ll Like It Here (published by Dalkey Archive Press in September). A selection of these texts was featured in the 2021 edition of NOON.