Lauren Elkin, Stephanie La Cava and Saskia Vogel in conversation

Riffing on Permission, Saskia Vogel's debut novel about love, loss, BDSM and the roles women play in the patriarchy, authors Lauren Elkin (Flâneuse, the forthcoming Art Monsters) and Stephanie La Cava (the forthcoming The Superrationals) joined Vogel for readings and conversation that explored the spaces women are relegated to and those they carve out for themselves, sexual expectations and transgressions, and the current landscape of art and literature from the perspective of three writers who explore the balance of power between the genders.