The Lit Hub Author Questionnaire is a monthly interview featuring seven questions for five authors with new books. Katy Simpson Smith: The vast, thorny, erotic gap between thinking you know and actually knowing. Katy Simpson Smith: I recently got a strong hankering to apply for Harvard’s Divinity School. Emily McBride: Writing is not a career for me to give up! Katy Simpson Smith: That’s easy; by now, I don’t assume anyone has any interest at all!