Jenny Erpenbeck’s novel “Kairos” has been awarded this year’s International Booker Prize. Revisit Lauren Oyler’s profile of the German author, whose work is concerned with parallel worlds and conflicting truths. nyer.cm/XR2UTgM

Bartender gave me my drinks, paused, and said “it’s giving…€20.” Pretty good

Making sense of one’s identity in the context of psychopathology is a question of such enormous difficulty that it eventually exhausts us.

Comments on two recent New Yorker articles by Lauren Oyler & manvir singh

psychiatrymargins.com/p/psychopathol…

There are still tickets available to celebrate the launch of ALPHABETICAL DIARIES with me and Sheila Heti at Southbank Centre in London next Sunday. I am preparing THOUGHTFUL and PROVOCATIVE questions for her 😉 southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/liter…

If you are wearing a “naked” garment, you have to be naked under it. Body stocking…little nude jumpsuit…grow up Rita Ora!

All I did was give you a style for you to run with

An incredible review of AMERICAN ABDUCTIONS in NY Times

By Gina Apostol

“Reminds us surrealism also had a social ethos, to destabilize ruinous order through art. Similarly this is what AMERICAN ABDUCTIONS offers: the art-polemic as a defiant befitting medium for our dire times”

I really enjoyed talking to Leo Robson and josie mitchell for the Granta podcast. A very sprawling, thoughtful, and possibly intense conversation! granta.com/podcast-lauren…

‘You are what you do, and you are what you write, to some extent, I believe that at least.’

Lauren Oyler on personality, intention and the collapse between private and authorial selves.

granta.com/podcast-lauren…

Filled out the Embedded questionnaire about my internet habits, which I take seriously!

I can tell if music is good just by listening to it

“This is my GOOD MOOD NOW dance music playlist; I'm told I'm crazy for this, but I listen to this stuff while writing, and during any activity that requires momentum and stamina and may be improved by mild euphoria/mania. (Exercise, plotting revenge.)” Lauren Oyler / Herb Sundays

Herb Sundays 111: Lauren Oyler (Lauren Oyler)

The critic let(s) loose + SV4 on the year in hate, scrounging for pleasure, and Trance.

Art by Michael Cina .

Link in bio to Herb Sundays playlists and blog.

DJ Lauren Oyler this Sunday 😜

I interviewed Lauren Oyler for Interview Magazine and guess what! We discussed her bad reviews (and her list of overused words, how you introduce yourself to an Uber driver, etc) —

interviewmagazine.com/literature/lau…

I had a great Interview Magazine chat with cancela lansbury about The Paragraph that Drives Women Mad. You guys have been talking about my book for two months! interviewmagazine.com/literature/lau…

A guy who is either schizophrenic or on a lot of acid talked to me at the bar for a while and decided to write me a note in Lauren Oyler’s book

Nice review with a hilarious photo ft.com/content/ee1c76…

I talked to the boys