Heidi Julavits, novelist and co-founding editor of The Believer, discusses the magazine, freelancing, and independent publishing. She reads from The Uses of Enchantment. Heidi Julavits is truly an original figure in contemporary literature. George Saunders called Julavits "the Scheherazade of the new Anti-Terror Age," and Aimee Bender described Julavits' novel, The Effect of Living Backwards, as "a wonderfully absurdist game of chess."