--- title: Roz Chast: An Illustrated Interview description: The author of the new graphic memoir Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York on tourists, subways and pests in her beloved city canonical: https://time.com/4970296/roz-chast-going-into-town-book/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-10-05T14:46:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-07-09T08:19:42.830Z article:section: Ideas og:title: An Illustrated Interview with Roz Chast og:description: The graphic memoirist on tourists, subways and pests in her beloved New York City og:url: https://time.com/4970296/roz-chast-going-into-town-book/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: An Illustrated Interview with Roz Chast twitter:description: The graphic memoirist on tourists, subways and pests in her beloved New York City twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # An Illustrated Interview with Roz Chast by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Oct 5, 2017 2:46 PM UTC by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Oct 5, 2017 2:46 PM UTC The [author](http://rozchast.com/) of the new graphic memoir [_Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1620403218/?tag=timecom-20) on tourists, the subway and pests in her beloved city.  ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4970296/roz-chast-going-into-town-book/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4970296/roz-chast-going-into-town-book/"},"headline":"An Illustrated Interview with Roz Chast","datePublished":"2017-10-05T14:46:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-07-09T08:19:42.830Z","description":"The graphic memoirist on tourists, subways and pests in her beloved New York City","url":"https://time.com/4970296/roz-chast-going-into-town-book/","keywords":["Books"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/books/","name":"Books"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4970296/roz-chast-going-into-town-book/","name":"An Illustrated Interview with Roz Chast"}}]}] ```