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Someone Who Isn’t Me
100 Words or Less: The Podcast: Geoff Rickly from Thursday
1storypod by Sean Thor Conroe: Harsh Grandfather w/ Geoff Rickly
24 Question Party People Podcast: Geoff Rickly of Thursday
“Geoff Rickly has taken his golden retriever spirit to places good dogs don’t go, and lived to tell the tale.”
Anti-Matter: In Conversation: Geoff Rickly
“If the real Geoff Rickly feels for his fictional self, it's because he's been there.”
Barrelhouse: Barrelhouse Reviews: Someone Who Isn’t Me by Geoff Rickly
"Rickly reminds readers that addiction recovery has its own language of beauty and pain. When you wake from numbness, you see anew.”
Black Lipstick: Crisis of Character: Catherine Spino Reviews Geoff Rickly’s Someone Who Isn’t Me
“I wanted the voices to stop but the only duct tape I knew would quiet them was booze and weed. But my desire for sobriety was stronger, so I buckled in and braced myself. Geoff hears cicadas as the ibogaine kicks in.”
BOMB: Interview: Geoff Rickly
“Atmospheric and emotional in essence but grounded in an air-tight story structure, Someone Who Isn’t Me is my favorite book of the year.”
Brooklyn Vegan: Thursday's Geoff Rickly Announces Debut Novel
Chatworthy: Storytelling techniques, the torment of addiction and hope from heroin
“Drawing parallels to a contemporary Dante’s Inferno, Geoff discusses his odyssey through heroin addiction.”
Chorus.FM: Review: Someone Who Isn’t Me by Geoff Rickly
“As great of a lead singer and lyricist Geoff Rickly is, he is arguably a more talented writer on this loosely-based work of fiction that feels as raw as its likely intended to be.”
The Creative Independent: Geoff Rickly on the Benefits of an Interdisciplinary Practice
Writer and musician Geoff Rickly discusses the porous boundaries between autobiography and fiction, literature and music, and our past and present selves.
DIRT: Invisible Architecture: The Fictionalized Drug Trip
“Within Someone Who Isn’t Me, time and interiority have their own structures, and Rickly’s interest in the built environment jumps off the page.”
Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction: Geoff Rickly Trips Ibogaine to Get Off of Heroin
“Geoff takes us on his incredible rise to meteoric fame as the front man for Thursday and then the horrible decent into oxy and ultimately heroin addiction.”
GQ: How Thursday Frontman Geoff Rickly Wrote This Summer’s Trippiest Drug Novel—While Sober
“The book is a whirlwind read, part addiction autofiction, part band memoir, part psychedelic phantasmagoria.”
Hobart: William Burroughs and Sheila Heti on a Post-Hardcore Tour Bus, Dante as Tour Manager, Italo Calvino the Support Band: A Review of Geoff Rickly’s Debut Novel ‘Someone Who Isn’t Me’
“I’ve been thinking about how Rickly worked on his novel for five hours a day, five days a week, for five years – thinking how good that sounds. It makes me want to slow down and not try to get ahead of myself.”
How Long Gone Podcast: Geoff Rickly
Identified with Nabil Ayers: Thursday Frontman Geoff Rickly on His Familial Bond with the Band and Adopting the Survival Skills of His Fascinating Ancestors
Indiecast: Recommendation Corner: New Book by Thursday Frontman Geoff Rickly
Inside Hook: The 10 Books You Should Be Reading This July
“The novel follows a character struggling with his own demons — and reckoning with the paradise, purgatory and hell lurking in one man’s mind.”
Kerrang!: Book Review: Geoff Rickly - Someone Who Isn’t Me
“You become the junk that’s been flowing through his veins, you become the ibogaine, you become Geoff’s subconscious and conscious selves – and everything in between.”
New Noise Magazine: Book Review: Geoff Rickly - Someone Who Isn’t Me
“Remarkably, Rickly has an exact function for each and every word he writes. Not a single syllable is wasted, as his lyrical background translates beautifully to his prose.”
The New Scene Podcast: Geoff Rickly of Thursday / Author
The New York Times: Thursday Ends a 13-Year Break From Music With a Pointed Song
“Geoff Rickly, the band’s gregarious, garrulous frontman, spent the past decade as a multitasker in Brooklyn’s art scenes before documenting his path to sobriety with his 2023 literary debut, ‘Someone Who Isn’t Me.’”
NPR: In 'Someone Who Isn't Me,' Geoff Rickly recounts the struggles of some other singer
“It's rightly considered a classic of its era, and it crystallized Rickly as — no hyperbole, just fact — one of the most poetic, impactful and inspirational voices of his generation.”
Otherppl Podcast: Episode 854. Geoff Rickly
Paste: Restaurants, Rest Stops & Red Bulls: Geoff Rickly of Thursday
“A beautiful, powerful and moving book that portrays a fictionalized version of Rickly and his life and takes an honest and realistic look at addiction.”
The Peer Pleasure Podcast: Geoff Rickly (Thursday)
Pitchfork: Thursday’s Geoff Rickly Announces New Book ‘Someone Who Isn’t Me’
Rocksound: Interview: Thursday’s Geoff Rickly Talks Debut Novel ‘Someone Who Isn’t Me’
“‘Someone Who Isn’t Me’ is a painstaking labour of love, a complete reimagining of the trip novel by way of Dante’s Divine Comedy.”
Run Into the Ground Podcast: Ink & Dagger 7 Inches feat. Geoff Rickly
The Spectrum: A Book Review: ‘Someone Who Isn’t Me’ by Geoff Rickly
“I’ll be honest: I was hooked on this book just from the summary, but when you give me the chance to cross-reference “Howl” on page five, in addition to the visceral emotions the first paragraph alone summoned at seven o’clock in the morning? Well. Let’s just say I’m already on my third re-read and I haven’t even had it for two weeks.”
Stereogum: We’ve Got A File On You: Geoff Rickly
“The journey is riveting as he faces trauma head-on, almost time-traveling as he’s plucked into old memories like he’s reliving those moments. The book captures the same intensity that his music burns with.”
Talkhouse: Geoff Rickly (Thursday) Talks with Jonah Bayer on the Talkhouse Podcast
“We’ve got two guys who’ve known each other for decades, and who have a popular podcast, a post-hardcore band, and a new novel between them.”
UPROXX: Thursday’s Geoff Rickly Announces His Debut Novel ‘Someone Who Isn’t Me’ Arriving This Summer
“After studying the classics in college and writing hard-hitting lyrics in bands for years, he’s publishing his debut novel.”
Variety: Geoff Rickly on Why He Wrote His Debut Book About Kicking Heroin and if Thursday Will Record New Music
“Rickly’s newest project is a novel with plenty of grounding in the real world.”