Catherine Lacey is an American writer. She is the author of the award winning novels Biography of X and Pew. She is the recipient of a 2016 Whiting Award and 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship for fiction.
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2026
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From the storyHow natural it is to fail, to fail to decide, to remain in meaningless motion.
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Emotional Weight
3.5 / 5
Bittersweet
Narrative Pacing
1.2 / 5
Contemplative
Literary Style
3.2 / 5
Contemporary Literary
Speculative / Reality
1.9 / 5
Realistic / Mimetic
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The New Yorker
The New Yorker April 13, 2026 · Apr 13, 2026
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