Patricia Lockwood is the author of the novel No One Is Talking About This, a finalist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Booker Prize 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.
You have to look for where the language goes crunchy, where everybody starts saying the same things and formulating their reactions in the same way – and step out of it.
Patricia Lockwood
