Biography x reddit

Who is X?

Or more accurately, who was X? After reading Biography of X by Catherine Lacey, I still don't actually have an answer to that question, despite the title of this strange, inventive piece of literary fiction.

(Other than the fact she seems to have been a — and pardon my French — pretentious asshole.

Malcolm X is a story of an oppressed man becoming an oppressor through teaching men to oppress the Women in their own community.

Autobiography of Malcolm X hit me in the feels.

Really cool fictionalised biography with fake footnotes, pictures of documents etc and a world building similar to the Handmaid's Tale by Atwood.

It has been so good to read a piece that is so well written and thoughtful to hear about his life in such a way.

The biography of Vincent Van Gogh by Naifeh and Smith.

A big one.)

It’s a faux-biography X’s widow, named CM, writes of the notorious, award-winning, boundary-pushing artist, in an effort to get a true account of her late wife’s life out into the world. She does so after a competing biography — one that isn’t all that accurate — is published, but along the way discovers that her own view of X might not have been the whole truth, either.

X was, and remains after her death, a cypher. All CM can do is interview the many people who knew her and hope to glean some perspective.

CM’s journey takes her to the deeply restrictive Southern Territory (think: a far less polis