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Catherine Lacey

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Meg🍉Keep on BDS @nutmegg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
予約していたため、戻って来た脚でキャリーバッグを引き連れて婦人科で経膣超音波検査をした翌日に最適な読みもの @catherinelacey.bsky.social
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Public Cervix Announcement
Why is Mexico’s GYN healthcare so much better than that of the US?
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
losing my mind at how ruthless this sentence is
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Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
I published this story in The New Yorker a month ago and forgot to share it, but who cares if it's a month old? It still has exactly the same words, the same hatred of San Francisco, the same weird aunt energy, the same everything so here you go: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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“Rate Your Happiness,” by Catherine Lacey
How natural it is to fail, to fail to decide, to remain in meaningless motion.
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
bless Scaachi embedded.substack.com/p/my-interne...
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Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Imagine if all the "well, actually" guys used their power for good...
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 18/02/2026
Since the troll column seems to have worked: The very very very very very very very obvious question is not "why hasn't the left embraced AI" but "why has the right so eagerly embraced a tech product built on theft, sold by fraud, and optimized for abuse and misinformation"
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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 25/01/2026
I was having this conversation last night with someone about how many people are in the lynching postcard layer of this and simply do not care who the state harms or kills, they have already convinced themselves that person deserves it.
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Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Applications are open for the McCormack Writing Center Summer Workshop (formerly the Tin House Workshop) and I'm so glad to be teaching again this year. Apply here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/oregon-summe...
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Oregon Summer Workshop - McCormack Writing Center
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Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Did you know that paralyzing the muscles in your face (aka getting Botox) can inhibit your ability to have an orgasm? Sometimes I remember this fact and feel a need to tell everyone I know as soon as possible--
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The interactions between botulinum-toxin-based facial treatments and embodied emotions
Botulinum toxin (BTX) injections reduce muscle mobility and are commonly used to treat the appearance of glabellar frown lines. Research shows that this cosmetic treatment leads to a reduction in depression. This reduction is consistent with the ...
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Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Go To Sleep, Awake Woman
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Jason Arthur @jasonarthur.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
So pleased to see Nicola Barker's TonyInterruptor ('Strange & clever'), @benpester.bsky.social's The Expansion Project ('That rare thing, unique') & @catherinelacey.bsky.social's The Möbius Book ('Thrilling') included in this 'Greatest Books of 2025' list. www.telegraph.co.uk/books/author...
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The greatest books of 2025
Our critics review hundreds of books a year. Here are their favourites, from fiction and crime to memoir and history
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
They revoked Wole Soyinka’s US visa? I keep typing reactions and deleting them. Another new low.
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Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Writers, please sign on. www.boycottdivestunsubscribe.com/opinion-boyc...
"lydiakiesling [via IG]: I have written for the NYT in various sections since 2014 and it was one of the most exciting moments of my professional life when I first had a byline with the magazine. Since then the paper has supplied the majority of my freelance income, because they are one of the few places that has money to spend and a single long magazine piece there can pay $10,000--almost unheard of anywhere else. In our denuded national media landscape something like 8 percent of American journalists are employed there. I say all this only to convey that, although I know it's craven, I wrestled with severing the connection to a financial lifeline that is known as "the paper of record" and also employs people I care about and respect across its many sections. But I can't pretend not to see the way the paper has played the role of stenographer for the IDF, or used language to emphasize the humanity of Israeli civilians while turning murdered Palestinians into faceless groups, or allowed Bret Stephens to treat genocide like a matter of personal sentiment. Freelancers are important for maintaining this storied institution. I'm not so naive to imagine even 300 people will make a difference, but we won't know if we don't try. If you're a writer, learn more and sign on at the link in my stories. I sign in remembrance of the many murdered Palestinian journalists and novelists and poets who will never again have the choice.""No Opinion

I REFUSE TO WRITE FOR THE OPINION SECTION OF THE NEW YORK TIMES UNTIL THESE DEMANDS ARE MET." with a red arrow"THE NYT MUST:

Conduct a review of anti-Palestinian bias in the newsroom and produce new editorial standards for Palestine coverage.

Retract the widely debunked investigation "Screams Without Words."

Publish an editorial calling for a U.S. arms embargo on Israel.""Join the Boycott

GENOCIDE IS NOT A MATTER OF OPINION.

See the list of 300+ initiating signatories, read our statement, and join us at:

boycottdivestunsubscribe.com"
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Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Straight up plagiarism can ALSO help you beat writer’s block!
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Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I’m sad this letter was necessary, but I am proud to have signed it. You can add your signature too if you agree with the hopes and values described here. www.boycottdivestunsubscribe.com/opinion-boyc...
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No Opinion — The New York Times: Boycott, Divest, Unsubscribe
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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Love this scene in Mulholland Dr.
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Tania @eadeeva.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Hace unos días tuve la suerte de poder hablar un buen rato con @catherinelacey.bsky.social sobre literatura y sobre la vida. El resultado lo tenéis en @voguespain.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥 www.vogue.es/articulos/ca...
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Catherine Lacey, escritora: “Creo que hay algo maravilloso en estar enamorada de una persona cuya lengua materna no es la tuya propia”
La autora estadounidense triunfaba el pasado año con ‘Biografía de X’ y prepara el lanzamiento en castellano de ‘The Möbius Book’
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Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
In late May I lost my wallet, felt indignant and weird for a day, then I decided that this indignant and weird feeling was a good place from which to write a story. It's also about living abroad, but being unavoidably estadounidense. Here it is—
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“Coconut Flan,” by Catherine Lacey
Wherever Daria went, all over the world, strangers stopped her on the street for directions, as if she were such a neutral presence that she belonged almost anywhere.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 05/10/2025
“Wherever Daria went, all over the world, strangers stopped her on the street for directions, as if she were such a neutral presence that she belonged almost anywhere.” Read a short story by Catherine Lacey.
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“Coconut Flan,” by Catherine Lacey
Wherever Daria went, all over the world, strangers stopped her on the street for directions, as if she were such a neutral presence that she belonged almost anywhere.
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Bad Horse @badhorse.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
President Trump wants to kill American citizens the right way. By Ezra Klein
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Núria Molines-Galarza @nuriamolines.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
La alegría que me da estar nominada con compañeras tan queridas y talentosas ❤️, y más con «Biografía de X» de @catherinelacey.bsky.social (ed. @alfaguara.bsky.social).
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
If you are involved in the arts in any way, you should know about Fall of Freedom. Let’s do something about this, together www.falloffreedom.com
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FALL OF FREEDOM Fall of Freedom
Fall of Freedom is an urgent call to the arts community to unite in defiance of authoritarian forces sweeping the nation. Beginning November 21–22, 2025, galleries, museums, libraries, comedy clubs, t...
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Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Jeff called me “Mordant AF” 🤗
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Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
If you like extremely overlooked works of mid century literature and podcasts oh boy have I got a link for you—
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Hub City Press @hubcitypress.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Submissions are open for the 2026 C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize, judged by @catherinelacey.bsky.social! Head to hubcity.submittable.com/submit for guidelines and to submit your manuscripts!
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Hub City Press & Writers Project Submission Manager
Hub City Press, the publishing arm of the Hub City Writers Project, publishes books of literary fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, regional nonfiction, nature, and art. We are seeking new and extra...
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
For all you horrors who have been waiting, “Here Where We Live is Our Country” has a pub date! April 7, 2026 Preorder here bookshop.org/p/books/here... Preorders mean everything, so get one for all your friends. Haters, get some and have a book burning
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Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund
The Story of the Jewish Bund
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Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Muchísimas gracias por leerla y gracias a la traductora de mis respuestas!
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Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Not to brag but a three year old I have only met twice took a blurry picture of nothing with her mom’s phone and told her mom to send it to me.
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Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
What a relief it is to be translated into Spanish much more coherent than I can actually speak.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
12 years earlier.
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‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
ISLA VISTA, CA—In the days following a violent rampage in southern California in which a lone attacker killed seven individuals, including himself, and seriously injured over a dozen others, citizens ...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.
NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say
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Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Did someone turn The Möbius Book into a Möbius strip....????!!!!
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Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
So, Bookforum reviewer’s are having AI write their stuff now? (“Critic” has conflated a central character with a character who appears on one single page.) I wanted to read this review but this glaring error in the second paragraph stopped me.
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Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Well, I loved this book so much it made me start a Substack book club to try to get more people to read it. First meeting is August 2. :) :) :) Join us, or just go read it on your own. open.substack.com/pub/catherin...
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*The Irregular Book Club*
First read: SAD TIGER by Niege Sinno
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Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
I need everyone to stop what they’re doing and read this book; I started it last night and finished it this morning, breaking only to sleep.
The cover of Sad Tiger by Niege Sinno. A pink drawing of a tiger and a woman on a yellow background.
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Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
This line is, however, an idea posited by a dying animal speaking telepathically.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Bill Clinton please endorse my enemies
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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Oh no what if they turn this insanely popular young progressive into a national figure, anything but that
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Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
I said “fucking awesome” in The New Yorker.
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Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Sand hog!! I don’t even know what that means but I love it!!!
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Benjamin Samuel @benjaminsamuel.xyz · 17/06/2025
Happy pub day to Catherine Lacey's The Möbius Book! You can read an excerpt in the latest issue of BOMB—and find a link to order the book so you can read the rest! bombmagazine.org/articles/202... @catherinelacey.bsky.social @bombmag.bsky.social‬ ‪@fsgbooks.bsky.social
The cover of Catherine Lacey's book The Möbius Book is blue and features a white illustration of a möbius strip.
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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 12/06/2025
And today, this extraordinary conversation with the brilliant @catherinelacey.bsky.social... pod.fo/e/2e3d0b @grantabooks.bsky.social ♾️The Book That Refuses to End: Catherine Lacey on The Möbius Book♾️
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Shakespeare and Company: The Book That Refuses to End: Catherine Lacey on The Möbius Book
In this episode of the Shakespeare and Company Podcast, Adam Biles speaks with acclaimed author Catherine Lacey about her daring new work The Möbius Book. Structured as a "Tête-bêche"—two inte...
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Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I wrote about living in Titopia.
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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 10/06/2025
An essay by Catherine Lacey, author of ‘The Möbius Book,’ about joining a WhatsApp group Zoe Mendelson made for friends and strangers to send one another topless photos. Now, the chat is 250 people strong.
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The Transformative Power of Texting Nudes to 250 People
An essay by Catherine Lacey, author of ‘The Möbius Book,’ about joining a WhatsApp group Zoe Mendelson made for friends and strangers to send one another topless photos. Now, the chat is 250 people strong.
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Jason Arthur @jasonarthur.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Wonderful review of @catherinelacey.bsky.social's new book.. ‘Memoir collides with invention in a brilliant interrogation of art, faith & relationships…The Möbius Book is deeply serious & engrossingly playful, & it lavishly rewards serious, playful attention’ www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
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The Möbius Book by Catherine Lacey review – beyond the bounds of fiction
You can read it from either end, and go round again, as memoir collides with invention in a brilliant interrogation of art, faith and relationships
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Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I still vividly remember Drew telling me he cried at the end of the book, and my immediate next thought was, "Wow, I didn't know a life of writing could be a life of making men cry!" :)
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Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
ME: googling if it's ok for refrigerated probiotics to be out of the fridge for half a day AI Answer: "The best probiotic I know of is to choose a peasant for a mother and then insist on a vaginal birth followed by breastfeeding." ME: 😶
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Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
UK finished copies are here!
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