there 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

I 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.

The 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?

Build 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...

Build 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...

Moderately present

Memory 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!

If they also push harder for these mask bans…

more cash, less cards in 2025. bring back subway tokens. let me pay for laundry with a giant stack of quarters

It'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

Every 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

My 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

ty 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...

one of key functions of immigration raids & crackdowns is not to actually deport all migrants/refugees but to deepen conditions of social precarity & labor deportability. to make migrants more vulnerable to exploitation from bosses & landlords & banks, and to create scapegoats for austerity policies

This is art

I aim to disrupt myself by writing 8,001 books in 2025 alone!

Memory 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

+1 to this! If you’re in NYC it’s at Film Forum through the weekend. filmforum.org/film/soundtr...

mental health break? you bet it did

Grace 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."

overdue 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...

Link to read the open letter in support of Lisa Ko and to add your name: bit.ly/koletter

Fuck it we ball 🇵🇭

Prospect 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...

Fascism 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...

It's a good time to read this piece.

I 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...

If 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.

Lisa 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...

I 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...

It'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)) ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

oh no. created a playlist for a new novel. I guess it's really happening

was not aware that Steve Aoki is a fan of The Leavers and has a chapter about my novel in his memoir

two of the archival images we'll be showing at our BKPL event tonight - v excited to finally do powerpoint at a lit reading rsvp here -

"Ko pens a very queer book about memory, art, and revolution... brilliantly evoking what it feels like to live in today’s world: a burning that’s somehow slow and swift all at once" - thank you @KaylaKumari for this insightful review of Memory Piece!

Two final NYC events for MEMORY PIECE this month! Thur 5/16: LISA LISA at BK Library - can't wait to talk to @Qidurian abt shared novel themes incl Tehching Hsieh, art, labor, and more Tues 5/28: WNYC & NYPL chose MP as their May book club pick (!) and I'll be in convo at SNFL

how's that 'pushing Biden left' thing going

this is very Memory Piece: "stairwell with street-art style murals, a nod to the original 5 Pointz. Its owner tore it down to build the luxury housing complex. maybe the apts are so expensive bc he had to pay $150k for the art destroyed in the demolition"

Come see me at these April and May events in and around NYC! Tickets and more info (including two virtual events) at

last night at @booksaremagicbk - thank you @melissa_rivero for such a great conversation and everyone who came out in such gross weather. seeing people from so many parts of my life - friends from high school! former students! writers! - is one of the best things about book tour

went to pick up my library holds from my local branch and saw that someone had Memory Piece waiting for them on the holds shelf! thank you, neighbor (seeing my books in the library always makes me a little emotional 🥲)

I talked to @CatZhang1 at @TheCut about Chinese school, 90s web journals, my 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?

Last night's beautiful NYC launch for MEMORY PIECE with Ava Chin and Yu & Me Books / AAWW - so much abundance, so many sweet friends, 20% of this audience had an emotional flashback to the phrase "Dojo carrot ginger dressing"

East Coast! I'm coming home soon and can't wait to launch MEMORY PIECE next week in NYC, DC, and Boston, in conversation with these amazing writers! Ticket links below, and don't forget to wear a mask ❤️

Loved doing this Q&A with Amy Sutherland for the @BostonGlobe Bibliophiles column - got to discuss my compulsive reading habits, shout out recent favorites by @Lubchansky and @SafiyaSinclair, and the joy of lurching from “The Years” to “The Bee Sting”

celebrating pub day in LA - this is tonight at Skylight Books!

"long-awaited second novel" coming soooon

LOS ANGELES, SAN FRANCISCO, SEATTLE: I'm coming to you next week to launch MEMORY PIECE on the west coast (my first book launch since 2017)! I'll be in conversation with these generous & amazing writers. All events are free, ticket links below, and don't forget to wear a mask ❤️