When ‘Write What You Know’ Ruins Marriages, Ends Friendships
archive.today webpage capture Saved from history←priornext→ 8 Nov 2025 18:07:35 UTC All snapshots from host www.vulture.com WebpageScreenshot sharedownload .zipreport bug or abuseBuy me a coffee Menu Search BOOKS Four Friends, Two Marriages, One Affair — and a Shelf of Books Dissecting It A tale of literature and treachery. By Chris Heath, a freelance writer based in Brooklyn JULY 31, 2024 SAVE Ryan Fox, Hannah Pittard, Andrew Ewell, and Anna Shearer in 2011. Photo: Courtesy of Hannah Pittard This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. The broad empirical facts are not disputed. Four friends: Hannah Pittard, Andrew Ewell, Anna Shearer, Ryan Fox. Two marriages. Years ago, they fell in together in and around the world of postgrad creative writing at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. There’s a photograph from back when things were still good, all of them huddled together on a couch in a po