Grace Byron is a writer from Indianapolis based in Queens. Her writing has appeared in The Baffler, The Believer, The Cut, Joyland, and Pitchfork, among other outlets.
Grace Byron
Articles
I AM LISTENING! SHUT UP!
Grace Byron endures Ari Aster’s “Eddington.”
Don’t Look Down
Grace Byron considers Lorde’s “Virgin” and the gauntlet we lay for our pop stars.
Criticism as Apologetics
Grace Byron interviews Andrea Long Chu about her new book, “Authority.”
Symptomatic Reading
Grace Byron reviews Sarah Chihaya’s “Bibliophobia.”
Bright
Grace Byron’s story from the LARB Quarterly no. 43 moves between tense living rooms, quiet bookstores, and dive bars where old songs ooze out of speakers “like sludge.”
Perfect Little Baby
Grace Byron ruminates on despair and hope in the wake of the election.
Hagiography of a Narcissist: On J. D. Salinger’s “Hapworth 16, 1924”
Grace Byron explores J. D. Salinger’s literary and personal legacies through the lens of “Hapworth 16, 1924.”
Antitheory: On Anna Kornbluh’s “Immediacy”
Grace Byron reviews Anna Kornbluh’s “Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism.”
Other Shapes: On Kate Briggs’s “The Long Form”
Grace Byron reviews Kate Briggs’s “The Long Form.”
Dysphoria Blues: On Luke Dani Blue’s “Pretend It’s My Body”
Grace Byron reviews Luke Dani Blue’s “Pretend It’s My Body.”
Nightmares Worth Indulging: On Feminist Press’s “It Came from the Closet”
Grace Byron reviews “It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror” from Feminist Press and editor Joe Vallese.
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