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...

bless Scaachi embedded.substack.com/p/my-interne...

Another reason to check your spam-- apparently all the emails that the Jewish Voice for Peace has sent me for a while went to my spam folder? @jvp.bsky.social have you heard of other people having this problem?

Imagine if all the "well, actually" guys used their power for good...

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"

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.

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...

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--

Go To Sleep, Awake Woman

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...

They revoked Wole Soyinka’s US visa? I keep typing reactions and deleting them. Another new low.

Writers, please sign on. www.boycottdivestunsubscribe.com/opinion-boyc...

Straight up plagiarism can ALSO help you beat writer’s block!

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...

Love this scene in Mulholland Dr.

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...

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—

“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.

President Trump wants to kill American citizens the right way. By Ezra Klein

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).

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.