Daphne Merkin is a novelist, essayist, reviewer who became famous overnight for her 1996 New Yorker essay, "Unlikely Obsession" about her fetish for spanking. Now in the news again for her controversial New York Times op-ed critical of #metoo, Merkin talks about Phillip Roth, suicidal ideation, and whether her pal Woody Allen should be considered a sex offender.
