And then proceeded to drink a lot of cheap vodka. Miranda: To give another, slightly less flattering picture of me in those first few weeks of college, I think our friendship was further cemented when I-extremely dramatically, while wearing a strapless, backless velvet dress-broke up with my high-school boyfriend over the phone. Zan: For the record, I can now do all those things. Miranda: When I met Zan, she had never lit her own cigarette or opened a beer or wine bottle for herself because there’d always been a boy around who was trying to make out with her who was doing those things. Like, “Oh Zan, you’re going to need some help.” Zan: Long enough for her to cement herself in our friendship. Miranda Popkey (left) and Zan Romanoff (right) in November 2011. Zan Romanoff: It was a complicated thing. She just couldn’t get any hot water in the teacup. There were two hot-water dispensers, and Zan was fruitlessly trying to use the wrong one. I creepily also got up and wandered over. I’d already identified Zan as someone cooler than me who I definitely wanted to know. We were sitting in our dining hall, and Zan got up to make herself some tea. It was so early in orientation that our parents were still there. Miranda Popkey: We were on the same floor of the same dorm in college. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. She is the author of A Song to Take the World Apart, Grace and the Fever, and the forthcoming Look. Zan Romanoff, 32, a writer who lives in Los Angeles. She is the author of the forthcoming novel Topics of Conversation. Miranda Popkey, 32, a writer and social worker who lives in Watertown, Massachusetts.
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