Lisa Ko @iamlisako.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Hi Deborah! $19 USD? not sure what the conversion rate is 100
Lisa Ko @iamlisako.bsky.social · 22/12/2025To join, Venmo me $19 to cover the cost of shipping and materials by Jan 15, and include your name, email and mailing address in the note. I can ship internationally! If you don't have Venmo, message me and I can share other payment options. Forget Substack, SEE YOU IN YOUR MAILBOX 💕 140
Lisa Ko @iamlisako.bsky.social · 22/12/2025Craving words on actual paper? Ready to hurl your phone into the sea? Sign up for my snail mailing list and I'll personally mail you one zine or letter per season in 2026! Think essays and Q&As not available online and other surprises TBD! No tracking, no fascist tech platform that owns our work. 1125
Reposted by Lisa KoHarsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 14/06/2025there is a lot to be terrified of with news out of Minnesota thing that sticks out to me is how the killer impersonated being a cop Canada's deadliest mass shooting also involved police impersonation pretending to be cops in order to kill speaks volumes about sanctioned police violence & impunity 124678
Reposted by Lisa KoMaud Newton @maudnewton.bsky.social · 26/05/2025I recently read @iamlisako.bsky.social's MEMORY PIECE. A good companion read to PARABLE OF THE SOWER, with Y2K era art, tech, and activism storylines that extend to the future. Recommended. 1162
Lisa Ko @iamlisako.bsky.social · 21/05/2025it's hideous! what is even real anymore?! just another example of how our actual work as authors gets continually devalued (imagining that i blurbed your novel as "a thrilling tale of naval heroism") 1191
Lisa Ko @iamlisako.bsky.social · 20/05/2025A few of these quotes are from old AP reviews but for some reason they've all ended up being credited to me, apparently the world's most prolific fake blurber. 21096
Lisa Ko @iamlisako.bsky.social · 20/05/2025I only became aware of this when I saw a bookstore advertising a book club for Just Kids with a blurb from me, which then noticed was also on the publisher site, and then an author emailed my agent to thank me for blurbing her book, which I hadn't? www.harpercollins.com/products/jus...harpercollins.comJust KidsWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two... 3846
Lisa Ko @iamlisako.bsky.social · 20/05/2025The AI book list and general enshittification reminded me that I've been credited as blurbing hundreds of books I never have, including books by Patti Smith, Amy Tan, Sidney Sheldon, Joyce Maynard, and Elmore Leonard? And I can't get these fake blurbs taken off publisher and bookstore websites? 29460182
Reposted by Lisa KoLisa Ko @iamlisako.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Build your own time capsule with me on April 2 at Interference Archive as an analog antidote to digital authoritarianism. When histories are rewritten and collective memory is contested, personal archiving can be a mode of resistance. RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/build-your... 23914
Lisa Ko @iamlisako.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Build your own time capsule with me on April 2 at Interference Archive as an analog antidote to digital authoritarianism. When histories are rewritten and collective memory is contested, personal archiving can be a mode of resistance. RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/build-your... 23914
Lisa Ko @iamlisako.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Tickets here, starting at $5: www.eventbrite.com/e/obsessions...eventbrite.comObsessions! A Memory Piece Paperback Launch"A heartbreaking elegy for a communal, almost utopian approach to urban life." — Rumaan Alam, critically acclaimed author of Entitlement 010
Lisa Ko @iamlisako.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Memory Piece is out in paperback soon and we're celebrating with obsessions! I've dreamed of organizing a reading where writers share PowerPoints on topics they're obsessed with. Join us on 3/25 at P&T Knitwear for presentations from Jennifer Baker, Temim Fruchter, Benedict Nguyễn, and Nina Sharma! 240
Lisa Ko @iamlisako.bsky.social · 01/03/2025more cash, less cards in 2025. bring back subway tokens. let me pay for laundry with a giant stack of quarters 060
Lisa Ko @iamlisako.bsky.social · 01/03/2025It's paperback events season for MEMORY PIECE. @aliontas.bsky.social called the book "both warning and safe harbor," which I love! Join me on 3/25 for the paperback launch in NYC, and events in Philly, NJ, LA and more - plus a time capsule workshop and a zine workshop in April! lisa-ko.com/events 2144
Reposted by Lisa KoNYCosmosSC @nycosmossc.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Every Sunday, New Yorkers from all over make their way downtown to volunteer their time & fight the good, gourmet-inspired fight with EV❤️NYC. Packing up a hot meal & sending it out to our most vulnerable neighbors is a relatively small act…which feels great Learn more⬇️ www.evloves.nyc 📸Linda Hayes 020134
Lisa Ko @iamlisako.bsky.social · 27/01/2025My prompt on creating your own time capsule as an anchor in uncertain times is today's letter for @writingco-lab.bsky.social's 100 Days of Creative Resistance. Read the full post: mailchi.mp/504fc06240fa/lisa-ko-creating-time-capsule 063
Lisa Ko @iamlisako.bsky.social · 22/01/2025ty Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya for including Memory Piece! "A sprawling feminist tale about art, tech and capitalism, the queer relationships (and sex scenes!) are as detailed and developed as its storytelling about the toxic relationship between art and capitalism" www.autostraddle.com/queer-climat...autostraddle.comQueer Books About the Environment for When All You Can Think About Is Climate CrisisThese 30+ books are about land, ecology, natural disasters, apocalypse, the harm capitalism does to the planet, despair, hope, growth, death, and rebirth. 150
Lisa Ko @iamlisako.bsky.social · 27/11/2024I aim to disrupt myself by writing 8,001 books in 2025 alone! 0111
Lisa Ko @iamlisako.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Memory Piece is one of NPR's 2024 Books We Love: "A story about 3 friends growing up in and around NYC in the '90s. Their friendship evolves as they push the boundaries of art, performance and technology. I loved that the book makes art feel real and weird and kind of gross." Kind of gross: YES 1142
Reposted by Lisa Kovijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 21/11/2024+1 to this! If you’re in NYC it’s at Film Forum through the weekend. filmforum.org/film/soundtr...filmforum.orgFilm Forum · SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETATSOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D'ETAT Opens Friday, November 1 at Film Forum 3429
Reposted by Lisa KoJerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 14/11/2024mental health break? you bet it did 187335456112
Lisa Ko @iamlisako.bsky.social · 11/11/2024Grace Lee Boggs: "You don't choose the times you live in, but you do choose who you want to be, and you do choose how you want to think." 0255
Lisa Ko @iamlisako.bsky.social · 10/11/2024overdue for this, but what better time than the present to get emergency water storage (and find room to stash them in a city apartment) and I found this guide useful as someone whose approach to buying things is to simply want to be told what to get and where - theprepared.com/homestead/re...theprepared.comBest short term emergency water storageSurvival experts researched and tested dozens of the best short term emergency water storage containers for your home. Plus tips on storage and cleaning. 0121
Lisa Ko @iamlisako.bsky.social · 09/11/2024Prospect Park fire and eye-watering smoky air this morning in Brooklyn - consider masking up if you're out and about www.nbcnewyork.com/weather/weat...nbcnewyork.comNYC under air quality alert as smoke blankets tri-state; red flag warnings, drought conditions persistWildfires continue to burn around the tri-state as red flag warnings remain and drought conditions persist. The fires are leading to smoky skies and diminished air quality. Nearly a half-dozen wildfir... 23310
Reposted by Lisa KoPrism @prismreports.org · 07/11/2024Fascism cannot be overcome at the ballot box, writes @williamcson.bsky.social in his column. Confused & dizzy liberals drunk off the spectacle tumbled into historical amnesia, as if conspiring with those from the very forces that prescribed “Trumpism” was subversive. prismreports.org/2024/11/07/f...prismreports.orgFascism cannot be overcome at the ballot boxA mixture of fear and representation politics have helped the Republican Party amalgamate the liberal base into their policy positions 0138
Reposted by Lisa KoPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 06/11/2024It's a good time to read this piece.wagingnonviolence.org10 ways to be prepared and grounded if Trump winsThe key to taking effective action if Trump wins is to avoid perpetuating his goals of fear, isolation, exhaustion and disorientation. 22528267
Reposted by Lisa KoJack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 23/08/2024I can't stop thinking about the woman with the Pride bracelet at the DNC, covering her ears to drown out the names of dead Palestinian children. A perfect, chilling symbol of a party desperately trying to avoid the reality of the horror it has produced. www.discourseblog.com/p/the-democr...discourseblog.comThe Democratic Party Does Not Hear YouScenes from a week of genocide denial. 722276
Reposted by Lisa KoSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 19/08/2024If Chrystul Kizer had blonde hair and blue eyes, she’d probably be onstage tonight at the DNC, shaking hands with politicians who used her ordeal to help pass a federal law establishing “Stand Your Ground” policy for sex trafficking victims. 21839229
Reposted by Lisa KoNicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 21/08/2024Lisa Lucas: “It’s hard to be reminded by an entire industry that investments in your people will not be made, and that when investments are made, they’re provisional.” gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/08/21/b...nytimes.com‘A Lot of Us Are Gone’: How the Push to Diversify Publishing Fell ShortLisa Lucas was among the big hires meant to shake up the industry. Her departure, alongside other prominent Black editors and executives, has led some to question publishers’ pledge to diversify. 03724
Lisa Ko @iamlisako.bsky.social · 24/06/2024"To connect when so much is invested in keeping us separate is a constant practice, and when we are open to it, we can feel how close we are, the thin membrane between past and future, between all of us." 100
Lisa Ko @iamlisako.bsky.social · 24/06/2024I wrote about dream futures at @therumpus.bsky.social and the bizarre dissonance betwen what we're experiencing/witnessing and what we're told we are - and how speaking the truth of how we're really doing can be the most optimistic thing of all therumpus.net/2024/06/19/d...therumpus.netDream Futures - The RumpusAgain and again, I return to this: being in community is the antidote to feeling dread, despair, and powerlessness. 183
Lisa Ko @iamlisako.bsky.social · 13/06/2024and this NPR interview with Deepa Fernandes on Here and Now - in which I talk about destroying years and years of my journals! www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...wbur.org'Memory Piece' novel follows three Asian-American friends from the 1980s into 2040National Book Award finalist Lisa Ko's new novel explores how the character's lives intersect and change over decades. 000
Lisa Ko @iamlisako.bsky.social · 13/06/2024loved talking with Jaeyeon Yoo for Electric Literature about archives, documentation, self and state surveillance, and the ever-leaky and flawed container of Asian American identity electricliterature.com/lisa-ko-memo...electricliterature.comLisa Ko on Making Memory Under Capitalism - Electric Literature"Memory Piece" is about existing in an age of surveillance and creating art in an era where identity itself is commodified 100
Lisa Ko @iamlisako.bsky.social · 13/06/2024this interview with Jordan Lauf of WNYC, in which I talk about how speculative fiction is less about the future and more about offering possibilities for the present (thank you, Samuel Delaney) www.wnyc.org/story/author...wnyc.orgAuthor Lisa Ko on 'Memory Piece' (Get Lit) | All Of It | WNYCWe air highlights from our May Get Lit with All Of It book club event with author Lisa Ko. We discussed her ... 100
Lisa Ko @iamlisako.bsky.social · 13/06/2024This interview with the Miwa Messer for the Barnes & Noble Poured Over podcast! in which we talk about the counterbalance between the novel's 3 characters and why I wanted and needed to write a very different book from THE LEAVERS www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/poured-...barnesandnoble.comPoured Over: Lisa Ko on Memory Piece - B&N ReadsMemory Piece by Lisa Ko is an unforgettable story of art, friendship and coming-of-age that cuts across decades from the 1980s to the 2040s. Ko joins us to talk about forming the characters of the nov... 100
Lisa Ko @iamlisako.bsky.social · 13/06/2024It was such a treat to talk to Amy Sutherland for the Boston Globe Bibliophiles column - dream book nerd Q&A where I got to discuss my compulsive reading habits and shout out recent favorites www.bostonglobe.com/2024/03/19/a...bostonglobe.comLisa Ko, author of ‘Memory Piece,’ believes paperbacks ‘are made to love’ - The Boston GlobeOn graphic novels, Don DeLillo, and making your books into time capsules 100
Lisa Ko @iamlisako.bsky.social · 13/06/2024speaking of music! one of the best parts of publishing a new book is getting to create a playlist for Largehearted Boy's Book Notes series, and here's mine for MEMORY PIECE (additional book-inspired throwback playlists on my spotify which is iamlisako) largeheartedboy.com/2024/03/20/l...largeheartedboy.comLisa Ko’s playlist for her novel “Memory Piece” – Largehearted Boy 100
Lisa Ko @iamlisako.bsky.social · 13/06/2024this Q&A with Cat Zhang for The Cut where I talk about Chinese school, '90s web journals, secret driving playlists, and other obsolete esoterica (is this the first time that Teresa Teng and Noel have been mentioned in the same sentence in an interview??) www.thecut.com/article/lisa...thecut.comMemory Piece Is for the ‘Asian American Art Weirdos’When writing her second novel, Lisa Ko took inspiration from Taiwanese performance artists, online diaries, and ’90s alternative music. 100
Lisa Ko @iamlisako.bsky.social · 13/06/20241) This craft essay for Literary Hub about embracing my messy, circuitous, maximalism-to-minimalism method of novel writing, inspired by my family’s flea market stand when I was growing up, where we made and sold things out of found junk objects lithub.com/lisa-ko-how-...lithub.comLisa Ko: How Writing a Novel is Like Wandering a Flea MarketThis first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. I never start a novel knowing where I’m going. I don’t write linearly, and not in clear, numbered drafts, from a beginning… 100
Lisa Ko @iamlisako.bsky.social · 13/06/2024It's been 2.5 months since MEMORY PIECE published and I wanted to share some pieces and interviews I've enjoyed doing (book promo right now often feels like such a gross dissonance (but I guess also fitting for a novel that's essentially about art making and creative work under capitalism)) ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ 111
Lisa Ko @iamlisako.bsky.social · 23/05/2024oh no. created a playlist for a new novel. I guess it's really happening 000