lifted from the source, sometimes with tweaks and sometimes not. Lacey’s book feels wholly original, which is funny because it’s made up of so much borrowed material, with lines of some of the great articles, criticism, songs, books, etc.
Lucca, who is trying to piece together the life of her eccentric artist wife, X, after another writer’s attempt at a biography displeases her. Catherine Lacey’s Biography of X is, in short, a story about a woman, the once celebrated fictional journalist C.M.
