A note about the work "Bad Person" from Joanna Pearson: I’ve been listening to the new Leon Neyfakh podcast, “OnlyFantasy,” an exploration of the popularity of OnlyFans or, as the podcast puts it, “a search for the roots of digital intimacy.” It’s catnip for me. One of my obsessions as a writer is loneliness and our desire for connection—especially how that’s mediated by our access to online spaces and digital communication. Anyway, one of the most interesting parts of this podcast is how mundane many of the interactions are on OnlyFans. People seem to crave those "hi, how are you?/how was your day?" type of intimacies almost as much as any of the frankly erotic exchanges. The podcast just came out recently, but I mention it because, despite certain obvious differences, its concerns feel relevant to what I was considering back when I wrote this story. For additional reading on people complicating their lives with thrills and well-meaning blunders, I’ll recommend three excellent recent novels: The Ten-Year Affair by Erin Somers, Seduction Theory by Emily Adrian, and Bad Animals by Sarah Braunstein.