his week, I traveled to Laguna Beach, California to be part of The Wall Street Journal’s Tech Live conference, a series of onstage interviews with some of the tech world’s most powerful executives. On Tuesday, I spoke with Glossier founder and CEO Emily Weiss about building a direct-to-consumer beauty brand that is now an industry heavyweight. (Glossier was recently valued at $1.2 billion.) “It really comes down to just listening to people,” Weiss said, when I asked how she went from blogger to boss. “I learned there wasn’t really a beauty brand whose sweatshirt you wanted to wear.... A values-based brand was certainly missing from the landscape.”

Our three October cover stars also took to the stage. Disney CEO Robert Iger, interviewed by WSJ editor in chief Matt Murray, launched a forceful defense of superhero movies; model and activist Naomi Campbell spoke to deputy editor Elisa Lipsky-Karasz about tokenism and diversity on the runway; and actor Demi Moore talked to contributing editor Jason Gay about her revealing new memoir, Inside Out. Read more about the event below.

Elsewhere in the newsletter, get to know musician Rex Orange County, whose catchy new album Pony drops today; learn about director David Lynch’s paintings, an exhibition of which opens soon at Sperone Westwater Gallery in New York; and read a Q&A with Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout on how she brought back one of her best-known protagonists in her new novel, Olive, Again. And don’t miss a behind-the-scenes look at those viral hairstyles from the film The King, in an interview with the hair designer who created Timothée Chalamet’s bowl cut and Robert Pattinson’s flowing blond wig.