Catherine Lacey’s brilliant, astonishing new novel, “Biography of X,” is presented to the reader as a book by a fictional character, a journalist named C.M. Lucca.More than a year after the ...

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Catherine Lacey Wrote Her Biography Anyway. In her new novel, “Biography of X,” Lacey dreams up a larger-than-life, narcissistic artist, and rewrites American history to tell her story. Share ...

The narrator of “Biography of X,” the new Catherine Lacey novel, is a journalist named C.M. Lucca who worked for a Village Voice-like newspaper in New York City during the 1980s.

But you can “view” it yourself in Catherine Lacey’s genre-quaking new novel, Biography of X, which invents X, and her assumed identities, and her big, brash, occasionally stunty body of work.

New York Magazine’s the Look Book goes to Catherine Lacey’s book launch for “Biography of X.” On a recent Thursday, the novelist spoke to critic Merve Emre about her new book at Greenlight ...

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