Peggy L. Fox is the former president and publisher of New Directions, was Tennessee Williams’s last editor, and is James Laughlin’s literary coexecutor. She lives in Athens, New York, where we met to talk about, among other things, her career at New Directions, Tennessee Williams, the Chinese poet Bei Dao, Norfolk confetti, contacts and connections, James Laughlin’s literary influence, letter writing, re-introducing deceased giants, Barbara Elpler, W.G. “Max” Sebald, Gore Vidal, and New Directions’s colophon design.