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Patricia Lockwood

Biography

Patricia Lockwood

Patricia Lockwood is the author of the novel NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS, a 2021 Booker Prize finalist and one of The New York Times Book Review’s Ten Best Books of 2021, and the memoir PRIESTDADDY, one of The New York Times Book Review’s Ten Best Books of 2017, as well as the poetry collections MOTHERLAND FATHERLAND HOMELANDSEXUALS and BALLOON POP OUTLAW BLACK. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic and the London Review of Books, where she is a contributing editor. Her latest novel is WILL THERE EVER BE ANOTHER YOU.

Patricia Lockwood

Books by Patricia Lockwood

Will There Ever Be Another You
by Patricia Lockwood - Fiction, Humor

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. She’s afraid of her own floorboards, and “WHAT IS LOVE? BABY DON’T HURT ME” plays over and over in her ears. She hates her friends, or more accurately, she doesn’t know who they are. Has the illness stolen her old mind and given her a new one? Does it mean she’ll 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. “I’m sorry not to respond to your email,” she writes, “but I live completely in the present now."

No One Is Talking About This
by Patricia Lockwood - Fiction

A woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts travels around the world. She must navigate 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 threats --- from climate change and economic precariousness to the rise of an unnamed dictator and an epidemic of loneliness --- begin to loom, she posts her way deeper into the portal's void. An avalanche of images, details and references accumulate to form a landscape that is post-sense, post-irony, post-everything. Suddenly, two texts from her mother pierce the fray: "Something has gone wrong" and "How soon can you get here?"

Priestdaddy: A Memoir
by Patricia Lockwood - Memoir, Nonfiction

Father Greg Lockwood is unlike any Catholic priest you have ever met --- a man who lounges in boxer shorts, loves action movies, and constantly jams on the guitar. His daughter is an irreverent poet who long ago left the Church’s country. When an unexpected crisis leads her and her husband to move back into her parents’ rectory, their two worlds collide. In PRIESTDADDY, Patricia Lockwood interweaves emblematic moments from her childhood and adolescence with scenes that chronicle the eight-month adventure she and her husband had in her parents’ household after a decade of living on their own.