Una recomendación que he tomado de Cristina Garrigós. Espero echarle el diente pronto. ¡Un agradable descubrimiento! #AmericanStudies #CatherineLacey #BiographyofX

Echoing appreciation with the repost and noting my heartbreak and anger after scotus decisions and radical republican budget bill…also reminds me of the dystopian books that feel so real today
#BiographyofX #OurMissingHearts #ParableoftheSower

It’s beginning to feel that this book is constructed of a unique constellation of my own personal fixations. Like it was made just for me. Does your copy include Connie Converse? Denis Johnson? I might be in love or I might be unwell. #currentlyreading #BiographyofX

I’m currently haunted by this one: “The title of this book—as titles so often are—is a lie. This is not a biography, but rather a wrong turn taken and followed, the document of a woman learning what she should have let lie in ignorance.”
#CurrentlyReading #BiographyofX

There are few things I love as much as fiction pretending to be nonfiction. Show me a novel with footnotes and you can watch the goosebumps rise.
#CurrebtlyReading #BiographyOfX

He was one of those male artists obsessed with the void. All the male artists were making art about the void, and, you know, it sold quite well. But this one— he'd become frustrated with some of his sculptures—they weren't void enough, he said — so he'd burned them and I had agreed to exhibit the ash.

So much illuminated in the characters and scene setting by @catherinelacey.bsky.social…another roaring episode of laughter from this reader, such a perfect distillation of so much of contemporary art scene culture & particular ways #biographyofx

Despite craziness, squeeze joy reading or jotting down thoughts or talk to friends (imaginary writer friends); be grateful to @catherinelacey.bsky.social for another good belly laugh at this note re “more depressing than the Bell Jar” which, feels also like a review of teenage years. #biographyofx

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Rain. Sleet. Seemingly the perfect day to finally finish Biography of X by Catherine Lacey. Truth is I’ve had a helluva time finishing this book. Months. Can’t put my finger on why, except maybe a few unexpected plot diversions. And pacing? Anyone else whose read this have a similar experience? […]