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
it's hideous! what is even real anymore?! just another example of how our actual work as authors gets continually devalued (imagining that i blurbed your novel as "a thrilling tale of naval heroism")
May 21, 2025 at 12:58 PM
it's hideous! what is even real anymore?! just another example of how our actual work as authors gets continually devalued (imagining that i blurbed your novel as "a thrilling tale of naval heroism")
A few of these quotes are from old AP reviews but for some reason they've all ended up being credited to me, apparently the world's most prolific fake blurber.
May 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
A few of these quotes are from old AP reviews but for some reason they've all ended up being credited to me, apparently the world's most prolific fake blurber.
I only became aware of this when I saw a bookstore advertising a book club for Just Kids with a blurb from me, which then noticed was also on the publisher site, and then an author emailed my agent to thank me for blurbing her book, which I hadn't?
www.harpercollins.com/products/jus...
www.harpercollins.com/products/jus...
Just Kids
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two...
www.harpercollins.com
May 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I only became aware of this when I saw a bookstore advertising a book club for Just Kids with a blurb from me, which then noticed was also on the publisher site, and then an author emailed my agent to thank me for blurbing her book, which I hadn't?
www.harpercollins.com/products/jus...
www.harpercollins.com/products/jus...
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Obsessions! A Memory Piece Paperback Launch
"A heartbreaking elegy for a communal, almost utopian approach to urban life." — Rumaan Alam, critically acclaimed author of Entitlement
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