Lisa Ko

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📚 MEMORY PIECE (2024) 📚 THE LEAVERS (2017) Nationally bestselling novelist • National Book Award finalist • New Yorker http://lisa-ko.com

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A drawing of gray time capsule with a clock buried in the dirt beneath grass and shadows of buildings. Build Your Own Time Capsule: a workshop facilitated by Lisa Ko. Weds. April 2, 2025, 6:30-8:30pm, Interference Archive, 314 7th Street, Brooklyn
Feline Grimace Scale chart with first row "ear position" with photos of 3 cats Ears facing forward, slightly pulled apart, and rotated outwards. Second row Orbital tightening with 3 cats: Eyes opened, partially closed, squinted
Tues, March 25th, 6:30PM General Admission: $5 Redeemable as Credit Towards Book Purchase P&T Knitwear 180 Orchard St New York NY 10002 Lisa Ko Presents Memory Piece with Presentations from Special Guests
An image of a figure on a bicycle next to Join Lisa Ko on Tour For Memory Piece 3/19: Grand Forks, ND: University of North Dakota Writers Conference 3/21: Charlottesville, VA: Virginia Festival of the Book 3/25: NY, NY: P&T Knitwear - Paperback Launch (Obsessions! with Jennifer Baker, Temim Fruchter, Benedict Nguyễn, and Nina Sharma) 3/27: Long Beach, CA: Bel Canto Books (book launch for Roohi Choudhry’s Outside Women) 4/02: Brooklyn, NY: Interference Archive (Build Your Own Time Capsule Workshop) 4/07: Paramus, NJ: Barnes & Noble (in conversation with Nicole Haroutunian) 4/10: Philadelphia, PA: Asian Arts Initiative (in conversation with Emma Copley Eisenberg) 4/13: Queens, NY: The World’s Borough Bookshop (Zine Workshop) 4/15: Brooklyn, NY: Liz’s Book Bar (with Clare Beams, Xochitl Gonzalez, and Crystal Hana Kim) 4/17: Brooklyn, NY: Hive Mind Books (with Griffin Hansbury) 4/26-27: Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles Times Festival of Books More details at lisa-ko.com An image of the cover of the book, with the same figure on a bicycle set against a fuschia flame
Books We Love: NPR This is a coming-of-age story about three friends growing up in and around New York City in the 1990s. Their friendship evolves over the decades as they experiment with, and push the boundaries of, art, performance and technology. I loved that the book makes art feel real and weird and kind of gross – not glamorous and sugarcoated. — Elissa Nadworny, correspondent