Lance Richardson
@lancerichardson.bsky.social
Writer. Australian/American. TRUE NATURE, my biography of Peter Matthiessen, out now. Faculty in the Bennington MFA in Writing program. He/him. www.lancenrichardson.com
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I'm off social media for the indefinite future, but popping up briefly to post this, because otherwise how will anybody know about it? Me and the brilliant Howard Norman at the Harvard Book Store on January 21, talking about Matthiessen. Free, no ticket required. Please come if you're in Boston.
A brilliant lecture by Edward Carey at Bennington, with a surprise guest appearance by Peter Matthiessen.
January 15, 2026 at 4:41 PM
A brilliant lecture by Edward Carey at Bennington, with a surprise guest appearance by Peter Matthiessen.
Wrote a piece for the new issue of Orion.
A Near-Mythic Beast - Orion Magazine
The Snow Leopard and other impossible searches
orionmagazine.org
January 15, 2026 at 3:51 AM
Wrote a piece for the new issue of Orion.
This makes me so angry I can barely express it. All for nothing. They blew up AWW 2026 for nothing.
Adelaide Festival board has retracted their statement of 8 January and have an extended an invite to Randa Abdel-Fattah for the 2027 Writers' Week
January 15, 2026 at 1:45 AM
This makes me so angry I can barely express it. All for nothing. They blew up AWW 2026 for nothing.
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I love the new issue of Orion. Not only is it just the most beautiful magazine, but this issue has big(foot) stuff by @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social, @lancerichardson.bsky.social, and others. And Jeff's & my pal Eric Schaller makes a cameo appearance, which always makes me happy.
Introducing our Winter issue: CRYPTIDS: ON THE TRAIL OF BIGFOOT AND OTHER IMPROBABLE BEASTS. It’s creepy. It’s crawly. It’s steeped in myth and mystery.
Curl up, dive in, and, if you’re one of the sorry souls that doesn’t have a copy, subscribe right here.
orionmagazine.org/product/subs...
Curl up, dive in, and, if you’re one of the sorry souls that doesn’t have a copy, subscribe right here.
orionmagazine.org/product/subs...
January 15, 2026 at 1:40 AM
I love the new issue of Orion. Not only is it just the most beautiful magazine, but this issue has big(foot) stuff by @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social, @lancerichardson.bsky.social, and others. And Jeff's & my pal Eric Schaller makes a cameo appearance, which always makes me happy.
Adelaide Writers' Week canceled, and the rest of the board resigns.
January 13, 2026 at 3:46 AM
Adelaide Writers' Week canceled, and the rest of the board resigns.
Sad days.
I cannot be party to silencing writers, which is why I am resigning as director of Adelaide Writers’ Week | Louise Adler
Cancelling the Australian Palestinian author Randa Abdel-Fattah weakens freedom of speech and is the harbinger of a less free nation
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Sad days.
Solidarity with Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah.
January 9, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Solidarity with Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah.
I'm off social media for the indefinite future, but popping up briefly to post this, because otherwise how will anybody know about it? Me and the brilliant Howard Norman at the Harvard Book Store on January 21, talking about Matthiessen. Free, no ticket required. Please come if you're in Boston.
January 6, 2026 at 6:36 PM
I'm off social media for the indefinite future, but popping up briefly to post this, because otherwise how will anybody know about it? Me and the brilliant Howard Norman at the Harvard Book Store on January 21, talking about Matthiessen. Free, no ticket required. Please come if you're in Boston.
If you read a biography and have a different interpretation, or "minor quibbles" — and I mean minor — you should absolutely email the author it. They love that.
December 31, 2025 at 3:16 PM
If you read a biography and have a different interpretation, or "minor quibbles" — and I mean minor — you should absolutely email the author it. They love that.
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over 400 new bookstores opened in the USA in 2025, which is 100 more than opened in 2024. bookstores are thriving:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/b...
Dragons, Sex and the Bible: What Drove the Book Business This Year
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 6:15 PM
over 400 new bookstores opened in the USA in 2025, which is 100 more than opened in 2024. bookstores are thriving:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/b...
My new years resolutions are to actually treat successes as successes, rather than as failures-in-disguise (not successful *enough*); and to lose ten pounds.
December 29, 2025 at 9:11 PM
My new years resolutions are to actually treat successes as successes, rather than as failures-in-disguise (not successful *enough*); and to lose ten pounds.
This is delightful. As another Australian-turned-American writer, Geraldine Brooks is a bit of a legend in my house.
Geraldine Brooks takes us on a tour of her home library
The bestselling author’s collection isn’t focused on fancy editions – it’s full of small treasures from a literary life.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:13 PM
This is delightful. As another Australian-turned-American writer, Geraldine Brooks is a bit of a legend in my house.
I interviewed a woman in her 80s, and at the end she asked me if I wanted "this" ... and then handed over a plastic bag filled with more than 120 letters written by Matthiessen from Pearl Harbor in 1945/46. In his archive in Austin, I also found *thousands* of pages about the bigfoot and yeti.
I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.
December 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I interviewed a woman in her 80s, and at the end she asked me if I wanted "this" ... and then handed over a plastic bag filled with more than 120 letters written by Matthiessen from Pearl Harbor in 1945/46. In his archive in Austin, I also found *thousands* of pages about the bigfoot and yeti.
Re the trailer for The Odyssey: Nolan's slavish commitment to realism just seems so ... unimaginative? Maybe the final film will surprise me, but I don't see any of the awe and wonder of the poem here.
December 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Re the trailer for The Odyssey: Nolan's slavish commitment to realism just seems so ... unimaginative? Maybe the final film will surprise me, but I don't see any of the awe and wonder of the poem here.
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Rick Nicita, CAA agent, on signing David Lynch in 1981: "The first time I met David, he came into my office wearing a string around his neck with a pen dangling from it. I said, ‘What’s that?’ and he said, ‘It’s a pen to take notes.’ I asked, ‘Do you take notes often?’ He said, ‘No, never.’"
December 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Rick Nicita, CAA agent, on signing David Lynch in 1981: "The first time I met David, he came into my office wearing a string around his neck with a pen dangling from it. I said, ‘What’s that?’ and he said, ‘It’s a pen to take notes.’ I asked, ‘Do you take notes often?’ He said, ‘No, never.’"
True Nature on Garden & Gun's "Favorite Books of 2025" list.
G&G’s Favorite Books of 2025
Our editors and contributors shared the novels, cookbooks, memoirs, and even a few oldies-but-goodies that they couldn’t put down this year
gardenandgun.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:58 PM
True Nature on Garden & Gun's "Favorite Books of 2025" list.
Walking along Benefit St in Providence and a black just sped past at a terrifying speed chased by six cop cars. Crazy scene. Scary shit.
December 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Walking along Benefit St in Providence and a black just sped past at a terrifying speed chased by six cop cars. Crazy scene. Scary shit.
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Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago.
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
December 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago.
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
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This entire weekend
December 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
This entire weekend
Sociopath.
December 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Sociopath.
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It’s an unspeakably sad day to be an Australian
December 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
It’s an unspeakably sad day to be an Australian
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Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
December 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
Was about to go to Trader Joe's, and then my landlord texted to say there is an active shooter in the neighborhood. Just another day in America.
December 13, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Was about to go to Trader Joe's, and then my landlord texted to say there is an active shooter in the neighborhood. Just another day in America.