![]() ![]() ![]() It's another attention-grabbing mind-blower which toggles between irony and sincerity, sweetness and blight. In the second half, the portal's hold on her vaporizes when real life intrudes urgently, in terrible and but also surprisingly beautiful ways. This led to speaking engagements around the world, at one of which a man asks, "This is your contribution to society?"Įven as Lockwood's narrator acknowledges the difficulty of writing about what she calls "the portal" - especially without "a strong whiff of old white individuals being weird about the blues" - she attempts just that in the first half of this novel. Her unnamed narrator is a social media star who achieved prominence when her post, "Can a dog be twins?" went viral. Now Lockwood has put that strength into her first novel, No One is Talking About This, which leaves no doubt that she still takes her literary vocation seriously. On the page I am strong, because that is where I put my strength." ![]() She confessed: "This is the secret: when I encounter myself on the page, I am shocked at how forceful I seem. ![]() While still in her teens, she took the vows of literature and became "a person who almost never left the house." Art became her emissary. Writing is a calling for Patricia Lockwood, as she made clear in her sacred and profane, lyrical and bawdy 2017 memoir, Priestdaddy. ![]()
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