Patricia Lockwood

THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS WINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE AND THE ONLY BOOK SHORTLISTED FOR BOTH THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE AND WOMEN S PRIZE FOR FICTION The world might be in disarray but for one young woman the very weave of herself seems to have loosened Time and memories pass straight through her body she s afraid of her own floorboards and WHAT IS LOVE BABY DON T HURT ME plays over and over in her ears I m sorry not to respond to your email she writes but I live completely in the present now But tearing through the slippery terrains of fiction and reality the possibility for human connection seems to beckon from the other side and with it the chance for a blinding re emergence into the world From one of our most original inventive and prodigiously funny writers Will There Ever Be Another You is a phosphorescent wild and profound investigation into what keeps us alive in unprecedented times Praise for Patricia Lockwood and No One Is Talking About This Patricia Lockwood is the voice of a generation Namita Gokhale I really admire and love this book Sally Rooney I can t remember the last time I laughed so much reading a book David Sedaris A rare wonder I was left in bits Douglas Stuart

Priestdaddy caused a sensation when it hit bookshelves in 2017 Vogue Glorious Sunday Times Laugh out loud funny The Times Extraordinary Observer Exceptional Telegraph Electric New York Times Snort out loud Financial Times Dazzling Guardian Do yourself a favour and read this memoir BookPageWINNER OF THE THURBER PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOURThe childhood of Patricia Lockwood the poet dubbed The Smutty Metaphor Queen of Lawrence Kansas by The New York Times was unusual in many respects There was the location an impoverished nuclear waste riddled area of the American Midwest There was her mother a woman who speaks almost entirely in strange riddles and arnings of impending danger Above all there was her gun toting guitar riffing frequently semi naked father who underwent a religious conversion on a submarine and found a loophole which saw him approved for the Catholic priesthood by the future Pope Benedict XVI despite already having a wife and children When an unexpected crisis forces Lockwood and her husband to move back into her parents rectory she must learn to live again with the family s simmering madness and to reckon with the dark side of her religious upbringing Pivoting from the raunchy to the sublime from the comic to the

Lockwood has written a roving chronicle of the madness of illness and the frightening porousness of what it means to be yourself in the hilariously profound way that only she could. VultureBonkers. The New York TimesReliably brilliant. The Washington PostA wild, devilishly curious, often hallucinatory ride thats worth its weight in insights. The San Francisco ChronicleFrom the Booker Prize finalist and formidably gifted writer (The New York Times), a vertiginous novel about a womans descent into illness and insanity.Amid a global pandemic, one young woman is trying to keep the pieces together of her family, stunned by a devastating loss, and of her mind, left mangled and misfiring from a mystifying disease. Shes afraid of her own floorboards, and WHAT IS LOVE? BABY DONT HURT ME plays over and over in her ears. She hates her friends, or more accurately, she doesnt know who they are.Has the illness stolen her old mind and given her a new one? Does it mean shell get to start over from scratch, a chance afforded to very few people? The very weave of herself seems to have loosened: time and memories pass straight through her body. Im sorry not to respond to your email, she writes, but I live completely in the presentnow."Will There Ever Be Another You is the brain-shredding, phosphorescent story of one womans dissolution and her attempt to create a new way of thinking, as well as a profound investigation into what keeps us alive in times of unprecedented disorientation and loss, from one of our most original writers.Praise for Will There Ever Be Another YouPatricia Lockwood writes with the impish verve and provocative guilelessness of a peeing cupid. The New YorkerCompletely singular Patricia Lockwoods body of work is like this: a hymnor ode, depending on the dayto the painful project of being human. The New RepublicThe authors fans will find her trademark humor, originality, and depth on full display. This is a knockout. starred Publishers WeeklyPraise for No One Is Talking About ThisA book that reads like a prose poem, at once sublime, profane, intimate, philosophical, witty and, eventually, deeply moving. The New York TimesReading Patricia Lockwood raises questions. Questions such as, How can a person understand both herself and the world with such clarity? How does a person experience things so intensely and express them so buoyantly? Am I laughing or am I crying? Lockwoods first novel is as crystalline, witty, and brain-shredding as her poetry and criticism. VultureWow. I cant remember the last time I laughed so much reading a book. What an inventive and startling writerIm so glad I read this. I really think this book is remarkable. David SedarisGod, is she funny! The New Yorker

A new collection(s) of poetry from Booker Prize finalist and Twitter laureate Patricia Lockwood, FINALLY!God, is she funny! The New YorkerMany have called Patricia Lockwood a wordsmith, but in the latest iteration of her life, she has become, quite literally, a metalsmith too. Stones, gems, metals, fossilsshe forges them into bodies, faces, and, with her typical irreverence, vaginas. In these poems, a robot dog discovers the Lascaux caves in France. Jane Austen shoots a perfect 147. A rock gets a girlfriend. The Pope blesses McLovin (kind of). Lockwoods most successful work of metal- and wordsmithing yet is her blend of the Internet world with the natural one, as she slips meme references and algospeak into evocations of geological time, explorations of organic bodies, and observations of youth. Her most personal collection of poetry yet, you may find you understand yourselfand Patriciamore than youd like to by the end.

Free-wheeling and surreal yet deadly serious, and including the viral hit Rape Joke (An oblique mini-masterpiece Guardian), this book shows one of our most original poets at her virtuosic best.Lockwood has written a book at once angrier, and more fun, more attuned to our times and more bizarre, than most poetry can ever getSTEPHEN BURT, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, BOOKS OF THE YEARLockwood should enter the canon forever . . . her lines left me crying on the subwayKAT STOEFFEL, THE CUTThe little hairs on my back rose often while reading Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals . . . Thats biological praise, the most fundamental kind, impossible to fakeDWIGHT GARNER, THE NEW YORK TIMES

Priestdaddy caused a sensation when it hit bookshelves in 2017VogueGloriousSunday TimesLaugh-out-loud funnyThe TimesExtraordinaryObserverExceptionalTelegraphElectricNew York TimesSnort-out-loudFinancial TimesDazzlingGuardianDo yourself a favour and read this memoir!BookPageThe childhood of Patricia Lockwood, the poet dubbed The Smutty-Metaphor Queen of Lawrence, Kansas by TheNew York Times, was unusual in many respects. There was the location: an impoverished, nuclear waste-riddled area of the American Midwest. There was her mother, a woman who speaks almost entirely in strange riddles and arnings of impending danger. Above all, there was her gun-toting, guitar-riffing, frequently semi-naked father, who underwent a religious conversion on a submarine and found a loophole which saw him approved for the Catholic priesthood by the future Pope Benedict XVI, despite already having a wife and children.When an unexpected crisis forces Lockwood and her husband to move back into her parents rectory, she must learn to live again with the familys simmering madness, and to reckon with the dark side of her religious upbringing. Pivoting from the raunchy to the sublime, from the comic to the serious, Priestdaddy is an unforgettable story of how we balance tradition against hard-won identity - and of how, having journeyed in the underworld, we can emerge with our levity and our sense of justice intact.Destined to be a classic . . . this years must-read memoir Mary Karr, author of The Liars ClubIrrepressible . . . joyous, funny and filthy . . . Lockwood blows the roof off every paragraph Joe Dunthorne, author of SubmarineBeautiful, funny and poignant. I wish Id written this book Jenny Lawson, author of Furiously HappyA revelatory debut . . . Lockwoods prose is nothing short of ecstatic . . . her portrait of her epically eccentric family is funny, warm, and stuffed to bursting with emotional insight Joss WhedonPraise God, this is why books were invented Emily Berry, author of Dear Boy and Stranger, Baby

The acclaimed second collection of poetry by Patricia Lockwood, Booker Prize finalist author of the novel No One Is Talking About This and the memoir PriestdaddySELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times * The Boston Globe * Powells * The Strand * Barnes & Noble * BuzzFeed * FlavorwireA formidably gifted writer who can do pretty much anything she pleases. The New York Times Book ReviewColloquial and incantatory, the poems in Patricia Lockwoods second collection address the most urgent questions of our time, like: Is America going down on Canada? What happens when Niagara Falls gets drunk at a wedding? Is it legal to marry a stuffed owl exhibit? Why isnt anyone named Gary anymore? Did the Hatfield and McCoy babies ever fall in love?The steep tilt of Lockwoods lines sends the reader snowballing downhill, accumulating pieces of the scenery with every turn. The poems subject is the natural world, but their images would never occur in nature. This book is serious and funny at the same time, like a big grave with a clown lying in it.

FINALIST FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE & A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOKWINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZEONE OF THE ATLANTICS GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS OF THE PAST 100 YEARSA book that reads like a prose poem, at once sublime, profane, intimate, philosophical, witty and, eventually, deeply moving. New York Times Book Review, Editors ChoiceWow. I cant remember the last time I laughed so much reading a book. What an inventive and startling writerIm so glad I read this. I really think this book is remarkable. David SedarisFrom "a formidably gifted writer" (The New York Times Book Review), a book that asks: Is there life after the internet?As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts travels around the world to meet her adoring fans. She is overwhelmed by navigating the new language and etiquette of what she terms "the portal," where she grapples with an unshakable conviction that a vast chorus of voices is now dictating her thoughts. When existential threatsfrom climate change and economic precariousness to the rise of an unnamed dictator and an epidemic of lonelinessbegin to loom, she posts her way deeper into the portals void. An avalanche of images, details, and references accumulate to form a landscape that is post-sense, post-irony, post-everything. "Are we in hell?" the people of the portal ask themselves. "Are we all just going to keep doing this until we die?"Suddenly, two texts from her mother pierce the fray: "Something has gone wrong," and "How soon can you get here?" As real life and its stakes collide with the increasingly absurd antics of the portal, the woman confronts a world that seems to contain both an abundance of proof that there is goodness, empathy, and justice in the universe, and a deluge of evidence to the contrary.Fragmentary and omniscient, incisive and sincere, No One Is Talking About This is at once a love letter to the endless scroll and a profound, modern meditation on love, language, and human connection from a singular voice in American literature.

La protagonista de esta novela es adicta a lo que ella llama «el portal», un espacio virtual en el que pasa la mayor parte del día observando vídeos ridículos, memes delirantes, noticias falsas, opin

A masterpiece'Guardian'I really admire and love this book' Sally Rooney'An intellectual and emotional rollercoaster'Daily Mail'I can't remember the last time I laughed so much reading a book' David Sedaris'It moved me to tears' Elizabeth DayTHE ONLY BOOK SHORTLISTED FOR BOTH THE BOOKER PRIZE AND THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021______________________________________________