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The Last Book I Loved: The Two Kinds of Decay
I was telling a friend about Sarah Manguso’s The Two Kinds of Decay.I said, “It’s about a woman whose blood tried to kill her,” and my friend hunched over, like I’d thrown something at her head or...
View ArticleNotable NYC: 7/5–7/11
Monday 7/7: Chuck Klosterman reads from I Wear the Black Hat, essays that twist the idea of villainy. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free.Alena Graedon and David Burry Gerrard read from their novels. Graedon’s The...
View ArticleI Am Not My Protagonist
At Buzzfeed Books, novelist Catherine Lacey writes about an interview she had with a reporter who assumed Lacey had based the protagonist of her first novel on herself. To an extent, Lacey finds this...
View ArticleNotable NYC: 7/26–8/1
Saturday 7/26: Fourth Annual New York City Poetry Festival. Governor’s Island, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., free.Sunday 7/27: Diana Hamilton, Leopoldine Core, R. Erica Dolye, Betsy Fagin, Brenda Lijima, and...
View ArticleThe Post-Wounded Woman
Leslie Jamison‘s The Empathy Exams coins the phrase “Post-Wounded Woman,” referring to women who “are wary of melodrama so they stay numb or clever instead. Post-wounded women make jokes about being...
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Nobody Is Ever Missing by Catherine Lacey
My copy of Catherine Lacey’s debut novel is dog-eared to the degree of making all those folded corners pointless. The book is one large dog-eared page, because you don’t have to flip far to find...
View ArticleDouble Deja Vu
Here’s a mouthful: Catherine Lacey has written a story, about a woman named Catherine Lacey, who’s writing a story about Etgar Keret, who’s just written a story about a man named after himself. Her...
View ArticleNotable NYC: 11/29–12/05
Saturday 11/29: Support your independent bookstores on Small Business Saturday.Monday 12/1: Daphne Merkin reads from her new collection of essays, The Fame Lunches: On Wounded Icons, Money, Sex, the...
View ArticleLiterary Resolutions
Authors, editors, and publishers make New Year’s resolutions, too. Head over to Electric Literature to discover what, among others, Emily Gould, Catherine Lacey, Mitchell S. Jackson, Lincoln Michel,...
View ArticleNotable NYC: 2/14–2/20
Saturday 2/14: Aziza Barnes, Sasha Fletcher, and Montana Ray are Poets with Attitude. Mellow Pages Library, 7:30 p.m., free.Bill Berkson and Matt Longobucco read poetry. Dia: Chelsea, 6:30 p.m.,...
View ArticleThe Woman Who Did Not Burn Down New York
For Vice, Catherine Lacey sits down with Renata Adler to discuss Adler’s new nonfiction collection, After the Tall Timber.Related Posts:The GIF NovelNotable NYC: 2/14–2/20 Masked CallingLiterary...
View ArticleNotable NYC: 4/25–5/1
Saturday 4/25: Cassandra Seltman, Ian Hatcher, and Clare Nazarena Tascio celebrate the release of Seltman’s poetry volume Palimpset: Down. Mellow Pages, 7 p.m., free.Ronaldo V. Wilson and Renée Green...
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The Rumpus Interview with Lincoln Michel
Lincoln Michel’s debut collection, Upright Beasts, has been highly anticipated and greatly praised, and for good reason: it’s a dark, dreamy spiral into a world mostly like ours, but a few degrees off,...
View ArticleCreative Writers in Conversation
Over at The Towner, Amelia Gray talks to Catherine Lacey about the role of the self and place in fiction, the artist’s responsibility to culture, and creativity and productivity. Lacey says: “It’s our...
View ArticleAn Interview Goes Both Ways
An unorthodox conversation, or experimental, two-way interview between Jesse Ball and Catherine Lacey at BOMB yields miscommunication, communication, repetition, randomness, push, pull, aphorism, and...
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Notable Chicago: 6/16–6/22
Friday 6/16: Visit Women & Children First to Celebrate the launch of Sharon Solwitz’s Once, In Lourdes with a conversation between Sharon and local author S. L. Wisenberg. 7:30 p.m., free....
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Notable NYC: 6/17–6/23
Sunday 6/18: Sherman Alexie presents his memoir You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me. WORD Jersey City, 5 p.m., free. Monday 6/19: Arundhati Roy presents The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. BAM, 7:30 p.m.,...
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Notable Los Angeles: 6/26–7/2
Monday 6/26: Mel Goodman discusses and signs Whistleblower at the CIA: An Insider’s Account of the Politics of Intelligence. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore. ALOUD presents An Evening with Roxane Gay....
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What to Read When You Don’t Want Summer to End
Labor Day weekend is upon us, which means summer is winding down. While the season doesn’t truly end till September 22, kids are heading back to school, leaves are beginning to fall, and weekends at...
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Drawing Close to the Void: Talking with Patty Yumi Cottrell
In Patty Yumi Cottrell’s first novel, Sorry to Disrupt the Peace (McSweeney’s, March 2017), the narrator investigates the suicide of her adoptive brother. Helen is thirty-two. Her brother was...
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