Lisa Ko
@iamlisako.bsky.social
📚 MEMORY PIECE (2024)
📚 THE LEAVERS (2017)
Nationally bestselling novelist • National Book Award finalist • New Yorker
http://lisa-ko.com
📚 THE LEAVERS (2017)
Nationally bestselling novelist • National Book Award finalist • New Yorker
http://lisa-ko.com
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there is a lot to be terrified of with news out of Minnesota
thing that sticks out to me is how the killer impersonated being a cop
Canada's deadliest mass shooting also involved police impersonation
pretending to be cops in order to kill speaks volumes about sanctioned police violence & impunity
thing that sticks out to me is how the killer impersonated being a cop
Canada's deadliest mass shooting also involved police impersonation
pretending to be cops in order to kill speaks volumes about sanctioned police violence & impunity
June 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
there is a lot to be terrified of with news out of Minnesota
thing that sticks out to me is how the killer impersonated being a cop
Canada's deadliest mass shooting also involved police impersonation
pretending to be cops in order to kill speaks volumes about sanctioned police violence & impunity
thing that sticks out to me is how the killer impersonated being a cop
Canada's deadliest mass shooting also involved police impersonation
pretending to be cops in order to kill speaks volumes about sanctioned police violence & impunity
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I recently read @iamlisako.bsky.social's MEMORY PIECE. A good companion read to PARABLE OF THE SOWER, with Y2K era art, tech, and activism storylines that extend to the future. Recommended.
May 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I recently read @iamlisako.bsky.social's MEMORY PIECE. A good companion read to PARABLE OF THE SOWER, with Y2K era art, tech, and activism storylines that extend to the future. Recommended.
The AI book list and general enshittification reminded me that I've been credited as blurbing hundreds of books I never have, including books by Patti Smith, Amy Tan, Sidney Sheldon, Joyce Maynard, and Elmore Leonard? And I can't get these fake blurbs taken off publisher and bookstore websites?
May 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The AI book list and general enshittification reminded me that I've been credited as blurbing hundreds of books I never have, including books by Patti Smith, Amy Tan, Sidney Sheldon, Joyce Maynard, and Elmore Leonard? And I can't get these fake blurbs taken off publisher and bookstore websites?
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Build your own time capsule with me on April 2 at Interference Archive as an analog antidote to digital authoritarianism. When histories are rewritten and collective memory is contested, personal archiving can be a mode of resistance.
RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/build-your...
RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/build-your...
March 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Build your own time capsule with me on April 2 at Interference Archive as an analog antidote to digital authoritarianism. When histories are rewritten and collective memory is contested, personal archiving can be a mode of resistance.
RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/build-your...
RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/build-your...
Build your own time capsule with me on April 2 at Interference Archive as an analog antidote to digital authoritarianism. When histories are rewritten and collective memory is contested, personal archiving can be a mode of resistance.
RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/build-your...
RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/build-your...
March 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Build your own time capsule with me on April 2 at Interference Archive as an analog antidote to digital authoritarianism. When histories are rewritten and collective memory is contested, personal archiving can be a mode of resistance.
RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/build-your...
RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/build-your...
Memory Piece is out in paperback soon and we're celebrating with obsessions! I've dreamed of organizing a reading where writers share PowerPoints on topics they're obsessed with. Join us on 3/25 at P&T Knitwear for presentations from Jennifer Baker, Temim Fruchter, Benedict Nguyễn, and Nina Sharma!
March 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Memory Piece is out in paperback soon and we're celebrating with obsessions! I've dreamed of organizing a reading where writers share PowerPoints on topics they're obsessed with. Join us on 3/25 at P&T Knitwear for presentations from Jennifer Baker, Temim Fruchter, Benedict Nguyễn, and Nina Sharma!
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If they also push harder for these mask bans…
First, they said postponed; now the meeting is canceled. That means no flu shots next year.
“'It’s a six-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'"
Fundamentally, that's a form of mass murder.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
“'It’s a six-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'"
Fundamentally, that's a form of mass murder.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
F.D.A. Cancels Meeting of Vaccine Experts Scheduled to Advise on Flu Shots
The cancellation plays into fears among scientists who worry that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will use his position as health secretary to sow doubts about vaccines.
www.nytimes.com
March 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM
If they also push harder for these mask bans…
more cash, less cards in 2025. bring back subway tokens. let me pay for laundry with a giant stack of quarters
March 1, 2025 at 3:17 PM
more cash, less cards in 2025. bring back subway tokens. let me pay for laundry with a giant stack of quarters
It's paperback events season for MEMORY PIECE. @aliontas.bsky.social called the book "both warning and safe harbor," which I love!
Join me on 3/25 for the paperback launch in NYC, and events in Philly, NJ, LA and more - plus a time capsule workshop and a zine workshop in April!
lisa-ko.com/events
Join me on 3/25 for the paperback launch in NYC, and events in Philly, NJ, LA and more - plus a time capsule workshop and a zine workshop in April!
lisa-ko.com/events
March 1, 2025 at 2:47 PM
It's paperback events season for MEMORY PIECE. @aliontas.bsky.social called the book "both warning and safe harbor," which I love!
Join me on 3/25 for the paperback launch in NYC, and events in Philly, NJ, LA and more - plus a time capsule workshop and a zine workshop in April!
lisa-ko.com/events
Join me on 3/25 for the paperback launch in NYC, and events in Philly, NJ, LA and more - plus a time capsule workshop and a zine workshop in April!
lisa-ko.com/events
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Every Sunday, New Yorkers from all over make their way downtown to volunteer their time & fight the good, gourmet-inspired fight with EV❤️NYC. Packing up a hot meal & sending it out to our most vulnerable neighbors is a relatively small act…which feels great
Learn more⬇️
www.evloves.nyc
📸Linda Hayes
Learn more⬇️
www.evloves.nyc
📸Linda Hayes
February 3, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Every Sunday, New Yorkers from all over make their way downtown to volunteer their time & fight the good, gourmet-inspired fight with EV❤️NYC. Packing up a hot meal & sending it out to our most vulnerable neighbors is a relatively small act…which feels great
Learn more⬇️
www.evloves.nyc
📸Linda Hayes
Learn more⬇️
www.evloves.nyc
📸Linda Hayes
My prompt on creating your own time capsule as an anchor in uncertain times is today's letter for @writingco-lab.bsky.social's 100 Days of Creative Resistance. Read the full post: mailchi.mp/504fc06240fa/lisa-ko-creating-time-capsule
January 27, 2025 at 2:45 AM
My prompt on creating your own time capsule as an anchor in uncertain times is today's letter for @writingco-lab.bsky.social's 100 Days of Creative Resistance. Read the full post: mailchi.mp/504fc06240fa/lisa-ko-creating-time-capsule
ty Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya for including Memory Piece!
"A sprawling feminist tale about art, tech and capitalism, the queer relationships (and sex scenes!) are as detailed and developed as its storytelling about the toxic relationship between art and capitalism"
www.autostraddle.com/queer-climat...
"A sprawling feminist tale about art, tech and capitalism, the queer relationships (and sex scenes!) are as detailed and developed as its storytelling about the toxic relationship between art and capitalism"
www.autostraddle.com/queer-climat...
Queer Books About the Environment for When All You Can Think About Is Climate Crisis
These 30+ books are about land, ecology, natural disasters, apocalypse, the harm capitalism does to the planet, despair, hope, growth, death, and rebirth.
www.autostraddle.com
January 22, 2025 at 7:51 PM
ty Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya for including Memory Piece!
"A sprawling feminist tale about art, tech and capitalism, the queer relationships (and sex scenes!) are as detailed and developed as its storytelling about the toxic relationship between art and capitalism"
www.autostraddle.com/queer-climat...
"A sprawling feminist tale about art, tech and capitalism, the queer relationships (and sex scenes!) are as detailed and developed as its storytelling about the toxic relationship between art and capitalism"
www.autostraddle.com/queer-climat...
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one of key functions of immigration raids & crackdowns is not to actually deport all migrants/refugees but to deepen conditions of social precarity & labor deportability. to make migrants more vulnerable to exploitation from bosses & landlords & banks, and to create scapegoats for austerity policies
January 22, 2025 at 2:34 AM
one of key functions of immigration raids & crackdowns is not to actually deport all migrants/refugees but to deepen conditions of social precarity & labor deportability. to make migrants more vulnerable to exploitation from bosses & landlords & banks, and to create scapegoats for austerity policies
This is art
A student somehow accidentally emailed the entire NYU faculty and the reply-all carnage is like a freeway pile-up
December 30, 2024 at 2:05 AM
This is art
I aim to disrupt myself by writing 8,001 books in 2025 alone!
November 27, 2024 at 7:11 PM
I aim to disrupt myself by writing 8,001 books in 2025 alone!
Memory Piece is one of NPR's 2024 Books We Love: "A story about 3 friends growing up in and around NYC in the '90s. Their friendship evolves as they push the boundaries of art, performance and technology. I loved that the book makes art feel real and weird and kind of gross." Kind of gross: YES
November 26, 2024 at 4:11 PM
Memory Piece is one of NPR's 2024 Books We Love: "A story about 3 friends growing up in and around NYC in the '90s. Their friendship evolves as they push the boundaries of art, performance and technology. I loved that the book makes art feel real and weird and kind of gross." Kind of gross: YES
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+1 to this! If you’re in NYC it’s at Film Forum through the weekend. filmforum.org/film/soundtr...
November 21, 2024 at 2:43 PM
+1 to this! If you’re in NYC it’s at Film Forum through the weekend. filmforum.org/film/soundtr...
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mental health break? you bet it did
November 14, 2024 at 2:38 AM
mental health break? you bet it did
Grace Lee Boggs: "You don't choose the times you live in, but you do choose who you want to be, and you do choose how you want to think."
November 11, 2024 at 3:45 AM
Grace Lee Boggs: "You don't choose the times you live in, but you do choose who you want to be, and you do choose how you want to think."
overdue for this, but what better time than the present to get emergency water storage (and find room to stash them in a city apartment) and I found this guide useful as someone whose approach to buying things is to simply want to be told what to get and where -
theprepared.com/homestead/re...
theprepared.com/homestead/re...
Best short term emergency water storage
Survival experts researched and tested dozens of the best short term emergency water storage containers for your home. Plus tips on storage and cleaning.
theprepared.com
November 10, 2024 at 2:22 PM
overdue for this, but what better time than the present to get emergency water storage (and find room to stash them in a city apartment) and I found this guide useful as someone whose approach to buying things is to simply want to be told what to get and where -
theprepared.com/homestead/re...
theprepared.com/homestead/re...
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Link to read the open letter in support of Lisa Ko and to add your name: bit.ly/koletter
October 29, 2024 at 2:32 PM
Link to read the open letter in support of Lisa Ko and to add your name: bit.ly/koletter
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Fuck it we ball 🇵🇭
November 6, 2024 at 11:19 PM
Fuck it we ball 🇵🇭