Author: Catherine Lacey
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Short reads: January 6, 2025
Happy 2025! Here are eight short reads I loved over the holidays.
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The Ghost Coat by Catherine Lacey
Catherine Lacey’s Biography of X is one of the best books I’ve read in recent years, and her weird, dreamlike, off-kilter prose is cranked up to 11 in this short story. I’ve read it three times; each time another section stands out to me. The curtains caught fire and he sat there staring at me…
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Biography of X by Catherine Lacey
This book is the most ambitious and layered thing I’ve read in a long, long time.