Saskia
Vogel is the guest. Her debut novel,
Permission, is available from Coach House Books.
Vogel was born and raised in Los Angeles and now lives in its
sister city, Berlin, where she works as a writer and
Swedish-to-English literary translator.
Previously she worked as Granta magazine’s
global publicist and as an editor at the AVN Media Network, where
she reported on pornography and adult pleasure products. She
volunteers her time as the honorary secretary of SELTA and as part of the team that
organizes Viva Erotica, an annual film festival in Helsinki that
explores the art, history, and culture of sex on film.