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

Jeff called me “Mordant AF” 🤗

If you like extremely overlooked works of mid century literature and podcasts oh boy have I got a link for you—

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!

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

Muchísimas gracias por leerla y gracias a la traductora de mis respuestas!

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.

What a relief it is to be translated into Spanish much more coherent than I can actually speak.

12 years earlier.

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

Did someone turn The Möbius Book into a Möbius strip....????!!!!

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.

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...

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.

This line is, however, an idea posited by a dying animal speaking telepathically.

Bill Clinton please endorse my enemies

Oh no what if they turn this insanely popular young progressive into a national figure, anything but that

I said “fucking awesome” in The New Yorker.

Sand hog!! I don’t even know what that means but I love it!!!

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

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♾️

I wrote about living in Titopia.

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.

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...

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!" :)

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: 😶

UK finished copies are here!

Give me the AI plug in that does just one thing-- deletes and blocks all the other AI plug ins.

Listening to D'Angelo and writing about Titopia. Oh you don't know what Titopia is? Soon you shall.

In fact, I do make that argument.

a starred review for THE MÖBIUS BOOK—

I am so sick of people telling me how well AI can “write” without anyone ever wondering why.

Dogs put everything in perspective. I was standing in the kitchen, indulging in a moment of panicked news-reading, when Cheskie arrived to lightly push his butt into my shin.

There's a lot of frankly tedious debate about whether We're In Fascism Right Now. Whatever your view, I hope we can all agree that "government shock troops disappearing dissidents into their gulag network" is a pretty basic example of fascism. www.discourseblog.com/p/this-is-wh...

Imagine having politicians who even know who Nero is.

The main (the only?) problem I have with living in a city is that it’s almost always rude to let out a guttural scream from time to time. What’s a rage-addled lady to do?

Emerging Southern writers, get those manuscripts ready. :)

Yo: El día está muy lindo, voy a dar un paseo para relajarme La CDMX:

I was once paranoid about The Lord’s all-seeing eye, but now that I know he’s not watching and never was I sort of miss the nosy fucker.

This explains everything.

“It’s emigration, not immigration, that should worry Americans. Because people wanting to leave… is a sign that this country is losing its capacity to address even its most pressing problems.”

There’s a type of person who reads a memoir (or even a novel!) with the intention of declaring whether the author is good or bad, right or wrong, as if all writing is advertisement for one’s moral purity and upright behavior. What a soulless and turgid little way to pass your life.

Here's a 144-word essay about anxiety.

Imagine being so willing to quietly shit-talk the majority of English literature with such a blurb….

There are a lot of wonderful things about the state of Montana, but ever since I got divorced there and discovered that some of their family court paperwork was in Comic Sans, I have suspected that the people who govern the state are not well.

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.