Lance Richardson
@lancerichardson.bsky.social
Writer. Australian/American. TRUE NATURE, my biography of Peter Matthiessen, out October 2025. Faculty in the Bennington MFA in Writing program. He/him. www.lancenrichardson.com
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Book tour time! Excited to be hitting the road this fall to talk about Matthiessen and TRUE NATURE with these incredible people. Ticket links and full details at lancenrichardson.com/events. ❄️🐆
Trump, the President of the United States, called a woman "piggy." That is where we are.
November 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Trump, the President of the United States, called a woman "piggy." That is where we are.
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"When an off-camera female reporter... began to ask if there was anything 'incriminating' in the Epstein emails, Trump pointed a finger in her face. 'Quiet. Quiet, Piggy,' he said menacingly."
Tell me again how it's women who are ruining the workplace?
people.com/donald-trump...
Tell me again how it's women who are ruining the workplace?
people.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
people.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:37 AM
"When an off-camera female reporter... began to ask if there was anything 'incriminating' in the Epstein emails, Trump pointed a finger in her face. 'Quiet. Quiet, Piggy,' he said menacingly."
Tell me again how it's women who are ruining the workplace?
people.com/donald-trump...
Tell me again how it's women who are ruining the workplace?
people.com/donald-trump...
My reaction to the endless Nuzzi/Lizza saga is not disgust so much as exhausted resignation. Many of us work *so damn hard* as writers, maintaining scrupulous ethics, and yet *these* people are the ones who get all the breaks. I read Nuzzi’s extract, or Lizza’s Substack, and think: Why do we bother?
November 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
My reaction to the endless Nuzzi/Lizza saga is not disgust so much as exhausted resignation. Many of us work *so damn hard* as writers, maintaining scrupulous ethics, and yet *these* people are the ones who get all the breaks. I read Nuzzi’s extract, or Lizza’s Substack, and think: Why do we bother?
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I finished reading this book last week and I still find myself thinking about parts of it every day. It’s quite simply one of the best biographies I’ve ever read, about one of the most fascinating writers of the 20th century.
Hats off to @lancerichardson.bsky.social for this Herculean achievement.
Hats off to @lancerichardson.bsky.social for this Herculean achievement.
November 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I finished reading this book last week and I still find myself thinking about parts of it every day. It’s quite simply one of the best biographies I’ve ever read, about one of the most fascinating writers of the 20th century.
Hats off to @lancerichardson.bsky.social for this Herculean achievement.
Hats off to @lancerichardson.bsky.social for this Herculean achievement.
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Join Village Books for a talk with @lancerichardson.bsky.social on TRUE NATURE: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen! An evening of wild places, literary lives and stories that change you.
📍 Bellingham, WA
🗓 Nov 18 from 6pm to 7pm PST
🔗 RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/lance-rich...
📍 Bellingham, WA
🗓 Nov 18 from 6pm to 7pm PST
🔗 RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/lance-rich...
November 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Join Village Books for a talk with @lancerichardson.bsky.social on TRUE NATURE: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen! An evening of wild places, literary lives and stories that change you.
📍 Bellingham, WA
🗓 Nov 18 from 6pm to 7pm PST
🔗 RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/lance-rich...
📍 Bellingham, WA
🗓 Nov 18 from 6pm to 7pm PST
🔗 RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/lance-rich...
Deeply annoying to be misquoted in a New Yorker letters page letter, and then scolded based on the misquote. I never said that!
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Deeply annoying to be misquoted in a New Yorker letters page letter, and then scolded based on the misquote. I never said that!
Gosh. "A magnificent literary biography, painstakingly researched, intricately organized, and beautifully written, fully worthy of its sensitive, restless, and driven subject. ... It should be of interest to anyone drawn to the search for our true nature and the deepest truths of the human heart."
In Search of the Snow Leopard
A new biography traces the lifelong pilgrimage of the novelist and Zen teacher Peter Matthiessen.
tricycle.org
November 15, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Gosh. "A magnificent literary biography, painstakingly researched, intricately organized, and beautifully written, fully worthy of its sensitive, restless, and driven subject. ... It should be of interest to anyone drawn to the search for our true nature and the deepest truths of the human heart."
Excited to finally visit @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social for myself tomorrow; and I’ll be speaking about my book with Chris Jennings.
Lance Richardson & Chris Jennings | True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen
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ptreyesbooks.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Excited to finally visit @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social for myself tomorrow; and I’ll be speaking about my book with Chris Jennings.
A giant tidal wave could be rushing around the globe, destroying all life on earth, but if you put Robyn on I would feel like everything was fine for the duration of the song. This is wonderful.
Robyn - Dopamine (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Robyn
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November 13, 2025 at 5:13 AM
A giant tidal wave could be rushing around the globe, destroying all life on earth, but if you put Robyn on I would feel like everything was fine for the duration of the song. This is wonderful.
"In True Nature, Lance Richardson offers vivid summaries of Matthiessen’s far-flung adventures. . . . [W]ell written, diligent in its reading of both fiction and nonfiction, and indulgent of Matthiessen’s idiosyncrasies."
Peter Matthiessen, novelist, naturalist, spy
Of the big-ego beasts who roamed the New York-centric literary world after the Second World War, Peter Matthiessen has remained the least conspicuous,
www.the-tls.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:19 AM
"In True Nature, Lance Richardson offers vivid summaries of Matthiessen’s far-flung adventures. . . . [W]ell written, diligent in its reading of both fiction and nonfiction, and indulgent of Matthiessen’s idiosyncrasies."
Denver food tips? Here for a night.
November 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Denver food tips? Here for a night.
What really happened with the CIA and the Paris Review? Had a long chat with Dan Piepenbring for the magazine.
What Really Happened with the CIA and The Paris Review?: A Conversation with Lance Richardson by Dan Piepenbring
November 11, 2025 – “In a funny way, it was really the fact that writing is far too solitudinous an activity that gave us The Paris Review. Along with the CIA, of course.”
www.theparisreview.org
November 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
What really happened with the CIA and the Paris Review? Had a long chat with Dan Piepenbring for the magazine.
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Happy pub day to @sarahweinman.com and her deeply important book Without Consent www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/b...
She Was a Victim. She Became a Headline. Here, She’s a Person.
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Happy pub day to @sarahweinman.com and her deeply important book Without Consent www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/b...
So excited to read this book. And published by my beloved Pantheon.
In BOUNDLESS DEEP, Richard Holmes explores the wild imagination and emotional depths of Young Tennyson as he wrestles with extinction, deep time, and a universe full of questions.
Coming 2.10.26
Cover designer: Linda Huang
penguinrandomhouse.com/books/208081...
Coming 2.10.26
Cover designer: Linda Huang
penguinrandomhouse.com/books/208081...
November 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
So excited to read this book. And published by my beloved Pantheon.
10, 20, 30% is not "a reasonable chance." It is idiocy.
Angus King: "This initial strategy didn't work. And now we have one. We're gonna have a guaranteed vote on the ACA, and it may not succeed. I grant that. But a reasonable chance -- 10, 20, 30% -- is a lot better than 0% which is where we were."
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
10, 20, 30% is not "a reasonable chance." It is idiocy.
So my partner has gone unpaid for weeks on a government furlough, forcing us to dip heavily into savings, for absolutely no reason. It was all for nothing.
Every single one of these Democrats needs to go.
Every single one of these Democrats needs to go.
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
So my partner has gone unpaid for weeks on a government furlough, forcing us to dip heavily into savings, for absolutely no reason. It was all for nothing.
Every single one of these Democrats needs to go.
Every single one of these Democrats needs to go.
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Hard to think of anything in media that regularly brings me as much pure joy anymore as the headline in The New York Times' Trilobites section.
November 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Hard to think of anything in media that regularly brings me as much pure joy anymore as the headline in The New York Times' Trilobites section.
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
"'True Nature' is beautifully written, generous, but also uncompromising, and Richardson handles the complexities with insight and grace."
The Path Home | The East Hampton Star
From Lance Richardson comes a hefty helping of biography on Peter Matthiessen, novelist, pioneering environmentalist, advocate for native peoples, bayman, Zen teacher, Sagaponacker.
www.easthamptonstar.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
"'True Nature' is beautifully written, generous, but also uncompromising, and Richardson handles the complexities with insight and grace."
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‘Miss Piggy’ Movie In Development With Cole Escola Writing, Jennifer Lawrence & Emma Stone Producing
Jennifer Lawrence recently announced that she and Emma Stone are producing a Miss Piggy movie, with Cole Escola penning a script.
deadline.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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So thrilled for Helen Garner winning the Baillie Gifford Prize today. Her diaries are *stunning.* I said as much in the Washington Post back in April.
Review | Helen Garner’s diaries match her fiction in their brilliance
The acclaimed Australian writer’s diaries, collected in “How to End a Story,” pay exquisite attention to marriage, creativity and more.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:58 AM
So thrilled for Helen Garner winning the Baillie Gifford Prize today. Her diaries are *stunning.* I said as much in the Washington Post back in April.
I miss living in New York so much.
Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez
November 5, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I miss living in New York so much.
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Thank god. Hope.
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Thank god. Hope.