These rarified moments seem all the more extraordinary when coming from a woman who sits on panels and tries to explain "why it was objectively funnier to spell it 'sneazing.'" Having become - in a turn of events surprising even to herself - famous for tweeting "Can a dog be twins?," the book's unnamed protagonist now spends her time traveling around the world, appearing as a social media expert at conferences and bookstores, and delivering guest lectures at universities and museums:ĭuring these appearances there entered into her body what she thought of as a demon of performance, an absolutely intact personality that she had no access to in ordinary times. The main character of her debut novel No One Is Talking About This, then, feels like a type close to the author. Before her stellar memoir Priestdaddy, Lockwood was well known for " Rape Joke," a 2013 self-referential poem that was published on the website The Awl and soon went viral she's also pushed the boundaries of social media content as literature on Twitter, with her hilarious and sometimes inscrutable "sext" tweets dancing on the lines between poetry, absurdity and obscenity. If anyone knows the ins and outs of living online, it's Patricia Lockwood. In her debut novel, poet, memoirist and, yes, internet-famous writer Patricia Lockwood reflects on life lived on and off social media.
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