Juno Reads 26 MARCH 2025: Biography of X - Catherine Lacey
'Brilliant, astonishing' Chris Kraus
'Sly, brilliant, philosophically acute, bitingly funny, and a pure joy to spend hours with' Lauren Groff
When X - the iconoclastic artist, musician and writer - dies suddenly, CM, her widow, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. The story will lead her deep into the Southern Territory - a fascist theocracy that split from the rest of the USA after World War II - before revealing the full weight of X's secrets, and the depth of her betrayal.
'A thriller set against a backdrop of political intrigue, an elegy, an art world satire and a thought experiment too... One of the most interesting books you'll read this year...' Financial Times 'A profound novel about love and what it can license, about the toll - and maybe the con - of genius' Garth Greenwell 'Sprawling and ambitious... Strange and dystopian... This is a major novel' New York Times
'Brilliant, astonishing' Chris Kraus
'Sly, brilliant, philosophically acute, bitingly funny, and a pure joy to spend hours with' Lauren Groff
When X - the iconoclastic artist, musician and writer - dies suddenly, CM, her widow, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. The story will lead her deep into the Southern Territory - a fascist theocracy that split from the rest of the USA after World War II - before revealing the full weight of X's secrets, and the depth of her betrayal.
'A thriller set against a backdrop of political intrigue, an elegy, an art world satire and a thought experiment too... One of the most interesting books you'll read this year...' Financial Times 'A profound novel about love and what it can license, about the toll - and maybe the con - of genius' Garth Greenwell 'Sprawling and ambitious... Strange and dystopian... This is a major novel' New York Times
'Brilliant, astonishing' Chris Kraus
'Sly, brilliant, philosophically acute, bitingly funny, and a pure joy to spend hours with' Lauren Groff
When X - the iconoclastic artist, musician and writer - dies suddenly, CM, her widow, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. The story will lead her deep into the Southern Territory - a fascist theocracy that split from the rest of the USA after World War II - before revealing the full weight of X's secrets, and the depth of her betrayal.
'A thriller set against a backdrop of political intrigue, an elegy, an art world satire and a thought experiment too... One of the most interesting books you'll read this year...' Financial Times 'A profound novel about love and what it can license, about the toll - and maybe the con - of genius' Garth Greenwell 'Sprawling and ambitious... Strange and dystopian... This is a major novel' New York Times
JUNO READS is IRL on Wednesday 26th March from 7:30 to 9pm, at Hagglers Corner, 586 Queens Road, S2 4DU. Feel free to arrive from 7:15 to order food/drinks before we begin.
Your ticket includes:
A copy of Biography of X by Catherine Lacey
Access to the IRL group on Wednesday 26th March
A little treat from us to say thank you
Your ticket does NOT include:
Postage. You need to collect the book from Juno Books, 24 Chapel Walk, Sheffield S1 2PD. You can also pay extra for postage. Multiple book orders will be posted at the same time so you only need to pay postage once.
