Catherine Lacey & Jen Calleja: Biography of X

In Catherine Lacey’s dystopian thriller, CM Lucca, widow of a recently deceased avant-garde artist, sets out to write a biography of the woman she idolised. Her quest leads her, through a maze of pseudonyms, half-truths and outright fabrications, on a journey into the Southern Territory, a fascist theocracy that seceded from the Union after the Second World War. Hailing Biography of X as ‘brilliant, astonishing’, Chris Kraus wrote in the Washington Post ‘everything in Lacey’s novel is turned upside down.’

Lacey was in conversation with Jen Calleja, translator, co-founder of micro-press Praspar and author of Vehicle (Prototype).