On this week’s podcast, the actor Nico Tortorella reads “Learning to Embrace Sexuality’s Gray Areas,” in which a chance encounter reveals the ways that love resists categorization.

The author, Adam Lundquist, was a finalist in the Modern Love college essay contest. Stay tuned after the reading for conversations with him and the Modern Love editor Daniel Jones.

Mr. Tortorella stars in the TV Land series “Younger.” Follow him on Instagram.