Catherine Lacey

1 month ago | publishersweekly.com | Catherine Lacey |John Birdsall |Caroline Darian |Prabal Gurung

Catherine Lacey. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (240p) ISBN 978-0-374-61540-6Novelist Lacey (Biography of X) reflects on love, faith, and loss in this ambitious genre-bender. Reeling after a breakup, Lacey set out to process it with a “Möbius strip of narrative”: the book’s first half is fiction, and the second—printed backwards and upside-down, requiring readers to physically turn the book over—is memoir. In the first, a woman named Edie visits her friend Marie near Christmas.

Jan 15, 2025 | catherinelacey.substack.com | Catherine Lacey

Since September, almost the only thing I’ve been watching is the work of the Spanish writer-director Pedro Almodóvar, and I highly recommend this kind of focused investigation of a single auteur. (Agnes Varda is next.)Prior to this I had seen a couple of his films and I’d liked them, but looking at his entire body of work and seeing the themes that recur has been really rewarding and exciting. I’m a little more than half way done with seeing his 23 features.

Jan 15, 2025 | theparisreview.org | Catherine Lacey

By Catherine Lacey January 15, 2025 I kept this notebook during my first intensive period of studying Spanish in Oaxaca in November of 2022. I didn’t know then that this study would soon be interrupted by almost two years in New York. As I looked through it more recently, it became clear how cheerfully deranged the early days of learning a new language appear from even the slightest distance. I am, you are, he is, we are, they are.

Jul 25, 2024 | latimes.com | Catherine Lacey

When I told a writer in New York I was going to meet Chris Kraus, she almost couldn’t believe it. For many, Kraus’ reputation as the author who has inspired so many contemporary novelists almost eclipses the fact that she’s also a person, an editor, a Californian, someone you can just email.

Jun 13, 2024 | 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com | Catherine Lacey

Hi friends. Today you will write 1000 words. I say this every year, but we have to write these words for the people who can’t. Do it for the people who do not have the same autonomy as you, or access to the same resources or luxuries—even if that luxury is simply just a little bit of time. Do it to honor those who wish they could write but are not allowed. Do it to honor the idea of freedom. You are lucky you have it. Now use it.