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Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social · 2d

In late May I lost my wallet, felt indignant and weird for a day, then I decided that this indignant and weird feeling was a good place from which to write a story. It's also about living abroad, but being unavoidably estadounidense. Here it is—

“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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Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social · 2d

“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.

www.newyorker.com

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 3d

“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.” Read a short story by Catherine Lacey.

“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.

www.newyorker.com

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Bad Horse @badhorse.bsky.social · 8d

President Trump wants to kill American citizens the right way.

By Ezra Klein

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Núria Molines-Galarza @nuriamolines.bsky.social · 9d

La alegría que me da estar nominada con compañeras tan queridas y talentosas ❤️, y más con «Biografía de X» de @catherinelacey.bsky.social (ed. @alfaguara.bsky.social).

ACE Traductores @acetraductores.bsky.social · 9d

En la víspera del #DíaInternacionaldelaTraducción anunciamos los nombres de las finalistas del #PremioEstherBenítez de traducción en su edición número veinte:
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Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social · 18d

A fantastic, though terrifying, essay.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 18d

If you are involved in the arts in any way, you should know about Fall of Freedom. Let’s do something about this, together www.falloffreedom.com

FALL OF FREEDOM Fall of Freedom

Fall of Freedom is an urgent call to the arts community to unite in defiance of authoritarian forces sweeping the nation. Beginning November 21–22, 2025, galleries, museums, libraries, comedy clubs, t...

www.falloffreedom.com

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Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social · 27d

Muchísimas gracias siempre!!

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Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social · 28d

Jeff called me “Mordant AF” 🤗

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · Sep 8

Loving Catherine Lacey's The Möebius Book so far. She's such a fine writer and mordant af.

The Moebius Book, Catherine Lacey, light blue hardcover

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Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social · Sep 4

If you like extremely overlooked works of mid century literature and podcasts oh boy have I got a link for you—

The Point Magazine @thepointmag.bsky.social · Sep 4

On today’s new episode of Selected Novels, Zach Fine and Jess Swoboda talk to @catherinelacey.bsky.social about Evan S. Connell’s “Mrs. Bridge”—at once a comic satire and a tender, sympathetic treatment of the mid-century American housewife, written in a style all its own.

Selected Novels | Catherine Lacey on Evan S. Connell - The Point Podcast

On this episode of Selected Novels, Jess and Zach talk to Catherine Lacey about Evan S. Connell’s Mrs. Bridge.Want more from The Point? Subscribe here at 50% off the normal rate.

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Hub City Press @hubcitypress.bsky.social · Sep 4

Submissions are open for the 2026 C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize, judged by @catherinelacey.bsky.social! Head to hubcity.submittable.com/submit for guidelines and to submit your manuscripts!

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · Aug 10

For all you horrors who have been waiting, “Here Where We Live is Our Country” has a pub date! April 7, 2026

Preorder here bookshop.org/p/books/here...

Preorders mean everything, so get one for all your friends. Haters, get some and have a book burning

Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund

The Story of the Jewish Bund

bookshop.org

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Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social · Aug 4

Muchísimas gracias por leerla y gracias a la traductora de mis respuestas!

Amparo Ferrando @aferrando.bsky.social · Aug 4

Toda la entrevista es oro. En preguntas de @anatxuz.bsky.social y respuestas de @catherinelacey.bsky.social No tiene desperdicio.

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Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social · Aug 4

Muchísimas gracias por leerla.

Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social · Aug 3

Not to brag but a three year old I have only met twice took a blurry picture of nothing with her mom’s phone and told her mom to send it to me.

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Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social · Aug 3

Gracias, Núria!

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Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social · Aug 3

What a relief it is to be translated into Spanish much more coherent than I can actually speak.

Núria Molines-Galarza @nuriamolines.bsky.social · Aug 3

Echadle un ojo a la entrevista que le hace Anatxu Zabalbeascoa a @catherinelacey.bsky.social, donde ya asoma su nuevo trabajo, 'El libro de Moebius', pronto en @alfaguara.bsky.social.

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Catherine Lacey, escritora: “Nos cuesta aprender que es absurdo culpar a los demás por nuestros problemas”

Cada uno de sus libros es un experimento que refleja los extremos de la sociedad norteamericana contemporánea. Su ‘Biografía de X’, un trabajo monumental en el que una escritora reconstruye la vida de...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jul 30

12 years earlier.

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

ISLA VISTA, CA—In the days following a violent rampage in southern California in which a lone attacker killed seven individuals, including himself, and seriously injured over a dozen others, citizens ...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jul 30

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

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Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social · Jul 29

Did someone turn The Möbius Book into a Möbius strip....????!!!!

Audreys Books 📚 Edmonton @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social · Jul 28

#yeg #booksky come on by and see the amazing installation of 'The Mobius Book, Stripped' by our resident #bookartist Winston @blackriders.com .
@catherinelacey.bsky.social we hope you like this take on your great book! Thanks to Raincoast for supplying books for this project. #bookart #mobiusbook

A typrwriter, a very long mobius strip made from the pages of 'The Mobius Book' by Catherine Lacey, accompanied by book covers.

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Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social · Jul 25

thank you!

Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social · Jul 16

Erroneous apostrophe 😑

Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social · Jul 16

Thank you! Truly I don’t mind when people don’t like my stuff, and reviews are really the only channel you can find out why/what, but… I mean when it’s this clear how shallowly they read something I just…. Why bother writing a book review at that point?

Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social · Jul 16

I think it’s good and healthy for writers to know what bothers people about their work, but there are lapses I simply cannot abide.

Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social · Jul 16

So, Bookforum reviewer’s are having AI write their stuff now? (“Critic” has conflated a central character with a character who appears on one single page.) I wanted to read this review but this glaring error in the second paragraph stopped me.

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