Catherine Lacey’s “The Möbius Book”
Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf speak with writer Catherine Lacey, about her latest novel “The Möbius Book.”
By LARB Radio HourJuly 18, 2025
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Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf speak with writer Catherine Lacey, author of the novels Biography of X, Pew, The Answers, and a short story collection, Certain American States. Her most recent work is The Möbius Book, which is split in two—one half is fiction and the other memoir. The novel tells the story of two friends, catching up on a grim Christmas Eve. The memoir is about Catherine herself, set adrift after a brutal breakup. Lacey discusses new beginnings, the formal experiment in the book, the connection between memory and storytelling.
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