Geoff Rickly on Why He Wrote His Debut Book About Kicking Heroin and if Thursday Will Record New Music

variety.com:

William Earl Geoff Rickly is an artist who is constantly expressing himself. He rose to fame in his early 20s as the singer of post-hardcore band Thursday, and his energetic stage presence brought the quintet a wave of buzz as both intellectual rockers and an essential live act.

Although Thursday broke up in 2011 after a string of critically-acclaimed records, Rickly has taken up vocal and songwriting duties in groups like No Devotion and United Nations — and even reunited Thursday a couple of times, including a recent run opening for My Chemical Romance’s arena tour and playing standalone shows and festival dates.

But Rickly’s newest project is a novel with plenty of grounding in the real world. “Someone Who Isn’t Me,” out today from Rose Books, is an autofiction dive into his struggles with heroin and treatment, and his deconstruction of self along the way.

Rickly spoke with Variety about why this was a story he had to tell, the recent popularity of the emo scene, and the future of Thursday. Your prose feels like a natural extension of your lyrics.