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Lance Richardson

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Writer. Australian/American. TRUE NATURE, my biography of Peter Matthiessen, out October 2025. Faculty in the Bennington MFA in Writing program. He/him. www.lancenrichardson.com

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 24d

Book tour time! Excited to be hitting the road this fall to talk about Matthiessen and TRUE NATURE with these incredible people. Ticket links and full details at lancenrichardson.com/events. ❄️🐆

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 1d

Launch events next week!

NYPL: www.showclix.com/event/richar...

BPL: www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/lan...

NWS: nationalwritersseries.org/author-event...

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 1d

I should say "English-centric."

Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 1d

I think the Nobel often goes to very worthy writers. Just ones I haven't read. More of an indictment of my eurocentric reading habits, I think, than anything else.

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 1d

I read constantly, and yet every year the Nobel committee makes me feel woefully underread and provincial in my choices. (In other words, I need to read Krasznahorkai.)

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Brown Anthropology @brownanthro.bsky.social · 1d

Brown University anthropologist Ieva Jusionyte awarded MacArthur ‘genius grant’ — @ievajusionyte.bsky.social, a cultural and legal anthropologist who leads the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies at @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social won an $800,000 grant to advance her work.

Brown University anthropologist Ieva Jusionyte awarded MacArthur ‘genius grant’

Jusionyte, a cultural and legal anthropologist who leads the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies at Brown’s Watson School of International and Public Affairs, won an $800,000 grant to adv...

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Kerri Arsenault @kerriarsenault.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to @ievajusionyte.bsky.social and her incredible work on borders and how they affect cultures on both “sides” of a boundary line ❤️❤️💪 www.macfound.org/videos/2025-...

Ieva Jusionyte - 2025 MacArthur Fellow

www.macfound.org

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 1d

Launch events next week!

NYPL: www.showclix.com/event/richar...

BPL: www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/lan...

NWS: nationalwritersseries.org/author-event...

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 2d

I should give it another go. Maybe after I finish with Silksong.

Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 2d

It's not the difficulty. It just doesn't have the compelling world exploration, and there's something funky about the directional controls I bounce off.

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 2d

I have played all the FromSoft games for like 100 hours each, but that one just defeats me.

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Daegan Miller @daeganmiller.bsky.social · 3d

Western Mass friends--on Tuesday, 10/21 I'll be in conversation with @lancerichardson.bsky.social and photog Hans Teensma about Lance's marvelous, monumental new biography of Peter Mathiessen. Join us at Broadside Books, Northampton, 7PM

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 3d

Book launch next Tuesday at the New York Public Library. Going to be a tremendous event. Tickets are free!

True Nature: Lance Richardson with Sam Anderson

Tickets for True Nature: Lance Richardson with Sam Anderson in New York from NYPL. The author of the first biography of Peter Matthiessen discusses the trailblazing novelist, naturalist, and Zen roshi...

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 4d

Please excuse a little self-promotion over the next few weeks as I launch my book. I'm doing a whole bunch of in-person events across the country, but this virtual talk with Doug Stanton for the National Writers Series will be a lot of fun.

nationalwritersseries.org/author-event...

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 4d

Legendary film that changed my life as a confused kid in a conservative country town. (Seeing the “Don’t Dream It” pool scene for the first time was more mind-manifesting than LSD.)

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 4d

This is such a kick in the teeth to Vietnam veterans. If only they'd fought harder. Laziness and political correctness (in the 1960s-70s!) let the Viet Cong win.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 4d

Hell yeah. New @catherinelacey.bsky.social short fiction.

“Coconut Flan,” by Catherine Lacey

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.

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 6d

A classic depiction of mystical experience! Peter Matthiessen was obsessed with that chapter.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 6d

Don’t believe anyone who tells you that intelligence shows anything “without a doubt,” but even if the intelligence was water-tight, this strike was still murder. No law permits the deliberate, premeditated killing of civilians.

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 6d

The phrase “war-ravaged Portland” is so deeply unserious I don’t know how she can utter it without bursting into laughter.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Leavitt: "President Trump will end the radical left's reign of terror in Portland once and for all. The president has directed Secretary Hegseth to provide all necessary troops to protect war-ravaged Portland."

Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 6d

One Battle inspired me to rewatch Magnolia this week, and I liked it even more than I remember. Deranged film.

Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 7d

Any authors whose work was stolen by Anthropic should file a claim now to get a small sliver of the Copyright Settlement pie. Website just went live. (If in doubt, there is a search function you can use to see if your book(s) is included.)

ANT Homepage | ANT

www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 7d

Orange spine is UK/Australia; extreme close up is US.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 8d

"You have to feel depressed, but then there’s something that says: ‘There is still an awful lot left and that’s what we’ve got to fight to save.’"

Rest in peace. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91

Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour

www.theguardian.com

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 8d

I read 300 pages of the Savage Detectives and then accidentally left it on a plane ... and I feel ok about that. A far lesser work than 2666.

Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 8d

Twins. US and U.K. editions.

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