We see her flying all over the world giving talks, participating in panels about digital culture, and ultimately trying to find an answer to the question: can a dog be twins? The novel’s first half is a panoptic survey of the last five years of Twitter, referencing specific days, discourses, and enemies. The book follows a woman who has become famous because of her weird tweets. Much of this migrates to No One is Talking About This, a novel told entirely through dissonant fragments purposefully reminiscent of tweets. Her two published poetry collections, Balloon Pop Outlaw Black and Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals, showcase a writer whose style is reminiscent of John Ashbury but with the playfulness of Frank O’Hara, which is to say, she’s funny complex. And, as if to prove she can absolutely body any form, her first novel No One is Talking About This has been Booker-shortlisted. She is backed up by a body of work that traverses genre, from poetry to memoir and literary criticism. However, Lockwood isn’t your average shitposter. She has also made a superstar out of her cat, Miette, who famously banished Lockwood to jail for “ One Thousand Years!!!!”. Her viral tweets are numerous, such as her evergreen work “ So is Paris any good or not” or recent hits such as “ just envisioned a guy named Croag”. A veteran of Weird Twitter, Lockwood has made a name for herself as one of the funniest and most Online posters out there. If you don’t know Patricia Lockwood, you’ll know her Twitter avatar.
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