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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 isâ
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âCoconut Flan,â 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.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/10/13/coconut-flan-fiction-catherine-lacey
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Mikki Kendall
15 days ago
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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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
http://mccormackwritingcenter.org/oregon-summer-workshop/
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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 ...
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6170457/
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Go To Sleep, Awake Woman
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Jason Arthur
3 months ago
So pleased to see Nicola Barker's TonyInterruptor ('Strange & clever'),
@benpester.bsky.social
's The Expansion Project ('That rare thing, unique') &
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'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
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/best-best-books-of-2025/
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Hari Kunzru
3 months ago
They revoked Wole Soyinkaâs US visa? I keep typing reactions and deleting them. Another new low.
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Lydia Kiesling
3 months ago
Writers, please sign on.
www.boycottdivestunsubscribe.com/opinion-boyc...
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Straight up plagiarism can ALSO help you beat writerâs block!
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Iâm 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 â The New York Times: Boycott, Divest, Unsubscribe
https://www.boycottdivestunsubscribe.com/opinion-boycott
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Lance Richardson
4 months ago
Love this scene in Mulholland Dr.
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Tania
4 months ago
Hace unos dĂas 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
â€ïžâđ„
www.vogue.es/articulos/ca...
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Catherine Lacey, escritora: âCreo que hay algo maravilloso en estar enamorada de una persona cuya lengua materna no es la tuya propiaâ
La autora estadounidense triunfaba el pasado año con âBiografĂa de Xâ y prepara el lanzamiento en castellano de âThe Möbius Bookâ
https://www.vogue.es/articulos/catherine-lacey-escritora-entrevista-the-mobius-book-biografia-x
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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 isâ
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âCoconut Flan,â 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.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/10/13/coconut-flan-fiction-catherine-lacey
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The New Yorker
4 months ago
âWherever 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.â Read a short story by Catherine Lacey.
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âCoconut Flan,â 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.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/10/13/coconut-flan-fiction-catherine-lacey?utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=bluesky&mbid=social_bluesky&utm_brand=tny
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Bad Horse
4 months ago
President Trump wants to kill American citizens the right way. By Ezra Klein
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NĂșria Molines-Galarza
4 months ago
La alegrĂa que me da estar nominada con compañeras tan queridas y talentosas â€ïž, y mĂĄs con «BiografĂa de X» de
@catherinelacey.bsky.social
(ed.
@alfaguara.bsky.social
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Hari Kunzru
5 months ago
If you are involved in the arts in any way, you should know about Fall of Freedom. Letâs 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 21â22, 2025, galleries, museums, libraries, comedy clubs, t...
https://www.falloffreedom.com
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Jeff called me âMordant AFâ đ€
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5 months ago
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If you like extremely overlooked works of mid century literature and podcasts oh boy have I got a link for youâ
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5 months ago
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Hub City Press
5 months ago
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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Molly Crabapple
6 months ago
For all you horrors who have been waiting, âHere Where We Live is Our Countryâ 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
https://bookshop.org/p/books/here-where-we-live-is-our-country-the-story-of-the-jewish-bund-molly-crabapple/076afcc60cae1ffc?ean=9780593229453&next=t&affiliate=2186&prhc=PRHEFFDF5A7F1
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MuchĂsimas gracias por leerla y gracias a la traductora de mis respuestas!
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6 months ago
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Not to brag but a three year old I have only met twice took a blurry picture of nothing with her momâs phone and told her mom to send it to me.
6 months ago
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What a relief it is to be translated into Spanish much more coherent than I can actually speak.
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6 months ago
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Tim Onion
6 months ago
12 years earlier.
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âNo Way To Prevent This,â Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
ISLA VISTA, CAâIn 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 ...
https://theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-r-1819576527/
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Tim Onion
6 months ago
Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.
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Did someone turn The Möbius Book into a Möbius strip....????!!!!
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6 months ago
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So, Bookforum reviewerâs are having AI write their stuff now? (âCriticâ 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.
7 months ago
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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
https://open.substack.com/pub/catherinelacey/p/the-irregular-book-club?r=13mnv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
7 months ago
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I need everyone to stop what theyâre doing and read this book; I started it last night and finished it this morning, breaking only to sleep.
7 months ago
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This line is, however, an idea posited by a dying animal speaking telepathically.
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7 months ago
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Tim Onion
8 months ago
Bill Clinton please endorse my enemies
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Lila Byock
8 months ago
Oh no what if they turn this insanely popular young progressive into a national figure, anything but that
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I said âfucking awesomeâ in The New Yorker.
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8 months ago
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Sand hog!! I donât even know what that means but I love it!!!
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8 months ago
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Benjamin Samuel
8 months ago
Happy pub day to Catherine Lacey's The Möbius Book! You can read an excerpt in the latest issue of BOMBâand find a link to order the book so you can read the rest!
bombmagazine.org/articles/202...
@catherinelacey.bsky.social
@bombmag.bsky.social
⏠âȘ@fsgbooks.bsky.social
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Shakespeare and Company
8 months ago
And today, this extraordinary conversation with the brilliant
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...
pod.fo/e/2e3d0b
@grantabooks.bsky.social
âŸïžThe Book That Refuses to End: Catherine Lacey on The Möbius BookâŸïž
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I wrote about living in Titopia.
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8 months ago
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New York Magazine
8 months ago
An essay by Catherine Lacey, author of âThe Möbius Book,â 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 âThe Möbius Book,â 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.
https://www.thecut.com/article/my-group-chat-is-250-people-sending-nudes.html?utm_medium=s1&utm_campaign=nym&utm_source=bluesky
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Jason Arthur
8 months ago
Wonderful review of
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's new book.. âMemoir collides with invention in a brilliant interrogation of art, faith & relationshipsâŠThe Möbius Book is deeply serious & engrossingly playful, & it lavishly rewards serious, playful attentionâ
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
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The Möbius Book by Catherine Lacey review â 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
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jun/02/the-mobius-book-by-catherine-lacey-review-beyond-the-bounds-of-fiction
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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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9 months ago
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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: đ¶
9 months ago
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UK finished copies are here!
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9 months ago
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Give me the AI plug in that does just one thing-- deletes and blocks all the other AI plug ins.
9 months ago
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Listening to D'Angelo and writing about Titopia. Oh you don't know what Titopia is? Soon you shall.
9 months ago
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In fact, I do make that argument.
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9 months ago
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a starred review for THE MĂBIUS BOOKâ
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THE MĂBIUS BOOK | Kirkus Reviews
A genre-bending book that grapples with the diffuse and uncategorizable enormity of personal loss.
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/catherine-lacey/the-mobius-book/
9 months ago
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I am so sick of people telling me how well AI can âwriteâ without anyone ever wondering why.
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