On episode 218 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by writer Catherine Lacey. Calling in from the closet of her home, Catherine talks with Paul about her writing process and what she has been working on lately.Catherine’s most recent book is Pew, published in January 2020. Catherine tells Paul about how her writing process for that book was drastically different from her usual method and they discuss its epigraph, from Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas.” They discuss Donald Barthelme's Not-Knowing and Catherine talks about her experience of finishing writing one novel without having another to work on for the first time in years.Catherine Lacey is the author of four works of fiction: Nobody Is Ever Missing, The Answers, Certain American States, and Pew. Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellow, a Whiting Award, and twice being a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award. Her work has been translated into a dozen languages and published by The New Yorker, Harper's, The Believer, The New York Times, Playboy, and elsewhere. Her fifth book, Biography of X, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2023. Born in Mississippi, she is based in Chicago.Paul Holdengräber is an interviewer and curator of public curiosity. He is the Founder and Director of Onassis LA (OLA), a center for dialogue. Previously he was the Founder and Director of LIVE from the NYPL, a cultural series at the New York Public Library, where he hosted over 600 events, holding conversations with everyone from Patti Smith to Zadie Smith, Ricky Jay to Jay-Z, Errol Morris to Jan Morris, Wes Anderson to Helen Mirren, Christopher Hitchens to Mike Tyson. He is the host of "A Phone Call From Paul," a podcast for The Literary Hub.Credits:Paul Holdengraber - Co-Creator, Host, OLA DirectorAnthony Audi - Co-Creator, Researcher, OLA DirectorAlejandro Cohen - Co-Creator, Producer, ComposerChristian Pitt - Production Coordinator Erin Cooney - Copy, ProductionDublab Team