Lisa Owens
@lamowens.bsky.social
writer & screenwriter
Books: NOT WORKING (Picador, 2016) & NATURAL DISASTER (Virago, coming summer 2026)
Film: DAYS OF THE BAGNOLD SUMMER (2019)
Books: NOT WORKING (Picador, 2016) & NATURAL DISASTER (Virago, coming summer 2026)
Film: DAYS OF THE BAGNOLD SUMMER (2019)
Reposted by Lisa Owens
Friends, this piece by M. Gessen is a bracing, sobering read. We need to understand the era we are likely walking into. We have to ask ourselves what will be irrevokably lost. What are we willing to do to stop it?
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...
Opinion | To Obey Trump or Not to Obey (Gift Article)
The voluntarily surrender of the public’s power is how autocracies are built.
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Friends, this piece by M. Gessen is a bracing, sobering read. We need to understand the era we are likely walking into. We have to ask ourselves what will be irrevokably lost. What are we willing to do to stop it?
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...
referring to all enemies henceforth as 'typos'
people who delete tweets because of cowards are typos
February 8, 2025 at 11:19 AM
referring to all enemies henceforth as 'typos'
warning: this @theguyliner.bsky.social piece looks like it's going to be a bit of light relief, but in fact it's a stealth treatise on suffering and joy! theguyliner.com/impeccable/b...
![[Screenshot of text that reads]: You will never have the perfect life, you will never meet the man of your dreams, you will never be able to retry the forks in the road that took you to darker places, but it doesn’t mean the past is 100% unchangeable and the future is 100% out of your control. The two timelines – what was then, and what’s to come – can work together in the smallest of ways to make the now a lot more bearable.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6y7ps4jpgkunzqkp6g57p4ve/bafkreidutjt6ii6bp2ie3citw36eh2plfx6pj6cg2c7guwta4dl7mlhbxq@jpeg)
February 8, 2025 at 11:04 AM
warning: this @theguyliner.bsky.social piece looks like it's going to be a bit of light relief, but in fact it's a stealth treatise on suffering and joy! theguyliner.com/impeccable/b...
really delighted that my second novel, NATURAL DISASTER has found a home in the US with Little, Brown
February 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
really delighted that my second novel, NATURAL DISASTER has found a home in the US with Little, Brown
The Year of the Snake: very inspiring for the worm community
January 31, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The Year of the Snake: very inspiring for the worm community
Just finished ‘Our Evenings’ by Alan Hollinghurst. A beautiful, elegiac book, so perceptive at times I found it almost painful (but also, because it’s Alan H, very funny and sharp too)
January 30, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Just finished ‘Our Evenings’ by Alan Hollinghurst. A beautiful, elegiac book, so perceptive at times I found it almost painful (but also, because it’s Alan H, very funny and sharp too)
I wrote this a couple of years ago for @stingingfly.bsky.social about the great solace I found (and continue to find) in Lydia Davis's work. Re-posting here in case anyone else needs some Lydia in their life.
January 29, 2025 at 11:43 AM
I wrote this a couple of years ago for @stingingfly.bsky.social about the great solace I found (and continue to find) in Lydia Davis's work. Re-posting here in case anyone else needs some Lydia in their life.
perfect description of falling in love (from Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst)
January 16, 2025 at 1:31 PM
perfect description of falling in love (from Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst)
all the Limes are (all the Limes are down) and the sky is grey
December 8, 2024 at 10:10 AM
all the Limes are (all the Limes are down) and the sky is grey
Now that’s a BLURB (Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald which I have finally got around to reading thanks to @jessicastanley.co.uk)
November 28, 2024 at 3:07 PM
Now that’s a BLURB (Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald which I have finally got around to reading thanks to @jessicastanley.co.uk)
just treated myself to a glass of the good stuff*
* November-temperature tap water
* November-temperature tap water
November 26, 2024 at 1:36 PM
just treated myself to a glass of the good stuff*
* November-temperature tap water
* November-temperature tap water
‘There is a difference between “I’m frightened” and “this is frightening”. We get into trouble when we confuse the two’ — another great column from Eleanor Gordon-Smith, whose advice always somehow manages to transcend the particularity of the original problem
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘My boyfriend’s Instagram searches tap into my insecurities. I’m scared I’ll never be his type. How do I proceed?’ | Leading questions
There is no relationship where neither party ever finds other people attractive, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. But it is still legitimate to ask our partners to assuage our fears
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2024 at 11:18 AM
‘There is a difference between “I’m frightened” and “this is frightening”. We get into trouble when we confuse the two’ — another great column from Eleanor Gordon-Smith, whose advice always somehow manages to transcend the particularity of the original problem
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Reposted by Lisa Owens
Lisa, thank you SO much for posting about this - I'm half way through FAMILY HAPPINESS and...swoon. I'm officially a fan!
November 18, 2024 at 8:24 PM
Lisa, thank you SO much for posting about this - I'm half way through FAMILY HAPPINESS and...swoon. I'm officially a fan!
I loved writing the intro to the beautiful Weidenfeld & Nicolson reissue of Laurie Colwin’s FAMILY HAPPINESS, which is out this week alongside two other brilliant classics of hers. She was such a talented writer: sparkling, insightful, funny, profound.
November 13, 2024 at 12:55 PM
I loved writing the intro to the beautiful Weidenfeld & Nicolson reissue of Laurie Colwin’s FAMILY HAPPINESS, which is out this week alongside two other brilliant classics of hers. She was such a talented writer: sparkling, insightful, funny, profound.
the last time I posted here (also the first time) was to share a story I had written. Surely — SURELY — no one would be so craven as to come crawling back a whole year later, only to announce their new novel. And yet… www.thebookseller.com/rights/virag...
November 6, 2024 at 9:53 PM
the last time I posted here (also the first time) was to share a story I had written. Surely — SURELY — no one would be so craven as to come crawling back a whole year later, only to announce their new novel. And yet… www.thebookseller.com/rights/virag...
joined Bluesky the same day I have a new story out... coincidence? (The story is called 'Ice Queen' and you can read it here: stingingfly.org/2023/10/11/i...)
Ice Queen – The Stinging Fly
stingingfly.org
October 11, 2023 at 3:17 PM
joined Bluesky the same day I have a new story out... coincidence? (The story is called 'Ice Queen' and you can read it here: stingingfly.org/2023/10/11/i...)