Kat Lister
@katlister.bsky.social
Stay afraid, but do it anyway / words: Guardian, Observer, i paper, the Quietus / lecturing: City University / agent: http://blakefriedmann.co.uk/kat-lister / book: https://blakefriedmann.co.uk/news/kat-lister-fragile-bodies-auction-weidenfeld
Tried to wave at my boyfriend from the organ loft but he wasn’t having any of it. The Clientele sounding wonderful last night at St Pancras Old Church, what a beautiful night:
November 27, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Tried to wave at my boyfriend from the organ loft but he wasn’t having any of it. The Clientele sounding wonderful last night at St Pancras Old Church, what a beautiful night:
It is as beautiful as it is haunting and incisive. Schlossberg happens to be the cousin of RFK Jr, and this piece is also a fierce and clear-eyed dismantling of the irreparable damage he is doing to people’s lives.
November 24, 2025 at 9:10 AM
It is as beautiful as it is haunting and incisive. Schlossberg happens to be the cousin of RFK Jr, and this piece is also a fierce and clear-eyed dismantling of the irreparable damage he is doing to people’s lives.
And lest we forget:
November 23, 2025 at 8:28 AM
And lest we forget:
The sheer delight of discovering a
"new" author for the first time…I'm not sure how – or why – it's taken me as long as it has but l am so grateful to have found William Maxwell…in an airport WH Smiths no less!
"new" author for the first time…I'm not sure how – or why – it's taken me as long as it has but l am so grateful to have found William Maxwell…in an airport WH Smiths no less!
November 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The sheer delight of discovering a
"new" author for the first time…I'm not sure how – or why – it's taken me as long as it has but l am so grateful to have found William Maxwell…in an airport WH Smiths no less!
"new" author for the first time…I'm not sure how – or why – it's taken me as long as it has but l am so grateful to have found William Maxwell…in an airport WH Smiths no less!
An extraordinary night with the extraordinary Yiyun Li. Thank you Folkestone book Festival for having me & Sophie Haydock for curating so thoughtfully. I am left holding Yiyun's words: "there is only now and now and now”…
November 17, 2025 at 9:39 AM
An extraordinary night with the extraordinary Yiyun Li. Thank you Folkestone book Festival for having me & Sophie Haydock for curating so thoughtfully. I am left holding Yiyun's words: "there is only now and now and now”…
I am biased of course, but I am here to tell you that my favourite record by The Clientele has been reissued on vinyl this week & it is a rather beautiful thing: ffm.bio/theviolethour
November 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I am biased of course, but I am here to tell you that my favourite record by The Clientele has been reissued on vinyl this week & it is a rather beautiful thing: ffm.bio/theviolethour
A good woman doing GOOD THINGS – & amen to that:
November 8, 2025 at 3:19 PM
A good woman doing GOOD THINGS – & amen to that:
“But I wondered: By making death—such an intimate exchange of life for non-life—so public, were we honoring the dead? Or ourselves? Who granted us the right to the stories of the departed?”
God, I adore Hilton Als, and this is why:
www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...
God, I adore Hilton Als, and this is why:
www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...
November 1, 2025 at 3:54 PM
“But I wondered: By making death—such an intimate exchange of life for non-life—so public, were we honoring the dead? Or ourselves? Who granted us the right to the stories of the departed?”
God, I adore Hilton Als, and this is why:
www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...
God, I adore Hilton Als, and this is why:
www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...
And yes, I did end up reading some Sam Shepard aloud, this extract from his Rolling Thunder Logbook beautifully encapsulating how I feel about the unreachability, the unknowability of Dylan. Try as we might, we lose something in trying to close the gap:
October 26, 2025 at 8:15 AM
And yes, I did end up reading some Sam Shepard aloud, this extract from his Rolling Thunder Logbook beautifully encapsulating how I feel about the unreachability, the unknowability of Dylan. Try as we might, we lose something in trying to close the gap:
Thank you to the Betsey Trotwood & Travis Elborough for having me yesterday. What a delightful crowd, what a lovely way to spend a Saturday afternoon…& Street Legal sounded pretty damn good on the record player, too.
October 26, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Thank you to the Betsey Trotwood & Travis Elborough for having me yesterday. What a delightful crowd, what a lovely way to spend a Saturday afternoon…& Street Legal sounded pretty damn good on the record player, too.
Alright Bobcats, just a little reminder that I will be joining Travis Elborough at my fave pub on Saturday to talk all things Street Legal, an album I've loved since I was 17. I will be bringing my Dylan encyclopedia! I may even recite some Sam Shepard! There will definitely be beer! Join us!
October 22, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Alright Bobcats, just a little reminder that I will be joining Travis Elborough at my fave pub on Saturday to talk all things Street Legal, an album I've loved since I was 17. I will be bringing my Dylan encyclopedia! I may even recite some Sam Shepard! There will definitely be beer! Join us!
“…& all the world is mind.” Virginia Woolf wrote this passage about the expansive interconnectedness of reading (in her diary) when she was 21 years old. Extraordinary.
October 3, 2025 at 8:42 AM
“…& all the world is mind.” Virginia Woolf wrote this passage about the expansive interconnectedness of reading (in her diary) when she was 21 years old. Extraordinary.
Hello everyone, I wrote about the extraordinary lives of Lee Miller ahead of a major retrospective of her photography at Tate Britain – which opens tomorrow. And it's looking beautiful in the i Paper today! Read online here: inews.co.uk/culture/arts...
October 1, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Hello everyone, I wrote about the extraordinary lives of Lee Miller ahead of a major retrospective of her photography at Tate Britain – which opens tomorrow. And it's looking beautiful in the i Paper today! Read online here: inews.co.uk/culture/arts...
I genuinely squealed with delight opening my post today. And this is why! Out with @princetonupress.bsky.social next month, what a beauty:
September 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I genuinely squealed with delight opening my post today. And this is why! Out with @princetonupress.bsky.social next month, what a beauty:
I just found my old copy! Such neat handwriting. Where did it all go wrong, eh?
September 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I just found my old copy! Such neat handwriting. Where did it all go wrong, eh?
My heart. This one hurts. Farewell Robert Redford. A beautiful man, a soulful actor, and the finest Gatsby we ever had.
September 16, 2025 at 12:42 PM
My heart. This one hurts. Farewell Robert Redford. A beautiful man, a soulful actor, and the finest Gatsby we ever had.
Reading Christopher Isherwood’s A Single Man for the first time and, my goodness, what an opening paragraph:
August 27, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Reading Christopher Isherwood’s A Single Man for the first time and, my goodness, what an opening paragraph:
Seven years ago today we lost Pat Long: a beautiful human and a wonderful writer. He never got to enjoy the fruits of his labour, his book on The History of the NME, something that still saddens me. Sharing his wonderful intro here for anyone who might like to read it:
August 24, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Seven years ago today we lost Pat Long: a beautiful human and a wonderful writer. He never got to enjoy the fruits of his labour, his book on The History of the NME, something that still saddens me. Sharing his wonderful intro here for anyone who might like to read it:
The Cause (1981) with Jimmy Jewel, David Suchet & dearest Tony Caunter:
August 17, 2025 at 7:50 AM
The Cause (1981) with Jimmy Jewel, David Suchet & dearest Tony Caunter:
On another side note: imagine a time when the New Yorker stretched to 248 pages. TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY-EIGHT PAGES! Get me a flux capacitor.
August 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
On another side note: imagine a time when the New Yorker stretched to 248 pages. TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY-EIGHT PAGES! Get me a flux capacitor.
Anas al-Sharif was preparing for his slaughter on my birthday. Read his words. Share them. Remember him:
August 11, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Anas al-Sharif was preparing for his slaughter on my birthday. Read his words. Share them. Remember him:
I've just discovered the writing of Sanora Babb (thanks to Ken Burns' wonderful documentary The Dust Bowl) and, my god, I knew nothing about this. I've just bought her novel, Whose Names Are Unknown – I look forward to reading her words:
July 23, 2025 at 11:40 AM
I've just discovered the writing of Sanora Babb (thanks to Ken Burns' wonderful documentary The Dust Bowl) and, my god, I knew nothing about this. I've just bought her novel, Whose Names Are Unknown – I look forward to reading her words:
I only read it a few years ago and it blew me away! Extraordinary book, this passage alone:
July 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I only read it a few years ago and it blew me away! Extraordinary book, this passage alone: