Michelle Lhooq

Michelle Lhooq is a writer who, by some combination of tenacity and youthful stupidity, decided to make a career out of being really, really good at partying. She was born in Singapore, an anti-hedonic country that William Gibson famously called “Disneyland with the death penalty,” and growing up under its extreme restrictions on assorted freedoms made her obsessed with drugs and nightlife like a bad kink. These days, like every romantic-turned-cynic, she prefers complaining loudly about the vanities of the rave scene – although when she is in a good mood, she also sometimes throws cannabis and psychedelic parties in Los Angeles, where she is currently based. She has a newsletter called Rave New World, a book called “WEED,” and bylines in The Guardian, New York Magazine, GQ, and beyond.