Calvin Tomkins interviews Elizabeth Peyton, age 42, in this week's New Yorker. Peyton is a painter whose work is being exhibited at the New Museum of Contemporary Art starting tomorrow in New York.

Tomkins asks her what she got from reading "In Search of Lost Time".

"It was in the last volume", Peyton says, after some reflection. "The narrator goes to a party, and sees these people who have been in his life, and they've aged and so has he. But because of his memories he realizes that all times are present in the same time. This made so much sense to me."

Tompkins goes on to say that Peyton's portrait paintings involve "a complete absence of irony and cynicism, the twin pillars of postmodern style". Check out some of her art here.