The first novel from master of the zeitgeist Patricia Lockwood, No One is Talking About This is a classic book for our times about what it feels like to live and think online
Patricia Lockwood is the author of four books, including the 2021 novel No One Is Talking About This, an international bestseller which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and translated into 20 languages. Her 2017 memoir Priestdaddy won the Thurber Prize for American Humor and was named one of the Guardian's 100 best books of the 21st century. She also has two poetry collections, Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals (2014) and Balloon Pop Outlaw Black (2012). Lockwood's work has appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, and the London Review of Books, where she is a contributing editor. She lives in Savannah, Georgia.
I have been in headlong love with Patricia Lockwood’s hilarious and
subversive mind since her memoir Priestdaddy, but her first novel,
No One Is Talking About This, sent me reeling. Everything about
this book is testament to her wicked genius
*Lauren Groff, Red Magazine, Books of the Year 2021*
I finally read No One Is Talking About This after everyone
recommending it to me all year, and I'm so, so happy I did. Please,
please read this book
*Lorde*
Lockwood is an incontrovertibly gifted writer. Her sentences are
routinely surprising, her voice a startling agglomeration of poetic
clarity and hectic comedy
*Guardian*
Often filthy and irreverent, sometimes extremely funny, and
ultimately surprisingly poignant, No One Is Talking About This
offers more proof of Lockwood’s particular genius
*Telegraph*
A work that feels intensely relevant to our fractured time . . .
Wonderfully intricate
*Independent*
Lockwood has paid attention more closely than perhaps any other
human on earth to what it’s like to be alive right now
*Vanity Fair*
Astonishing . . . No One Is Talking About This will frighten you,
implicate you, and scrape your guts out, in the best way
possible
*Esquire*
Lockwood’s conceit is smart, her prose original, hugely
entertaining and witty . . . It is a story, simply, about love,
selfless and delighted
*New Yorker*
A smart and sharp book that is both addictive and deeply
unsettling
*Sarah Hughes, i*
What begins as an ironical story about irony becomes an intimate
and moving portrait of love and grief. In this way, a novel that
had been toying with the digital surface of modern life finds the
tender heart pumping away beneath it all
*Wall Street Journal*
Reading Patricia Lockwood feels like looking through a kaleidoscope
built by a mischievous sorcerer — the world is suddenly rearranged
in fragments that are cosmic, wondrous, humiliating, and profane.
No One Is Talking About This is a furiously original novel, alive
and unstable; the book builds to a reminder of how devastation and
connection produce each other, endlessly and surprisingly, both on
the internet and in human places that our shared digital
consciousness can never reach
*Jia Tolentino*
Lockwood is a phenomenal writer who is a keen observer of . . . the
fragility of the human heart
*Roxane Gay*
Hilarious, affectionate and deeply-felt. There is nothing that
Lockwood – and I don't say this lightly – can’t do
*Nicole Flattery, author of SHOW THEM A GOOD TIME*
A delightfully weird look at our service to the internet (fitting
in a year that gave us the “doomscroll”) and human connection and
intersection
*Stylist*
A formidably gifted writer who can do pretty much anything she
pleases
*New York Times Book Review*
The first half is a series of unbelievably accurate and funny and
insightful takes on what it means to live in the internet of the
modern age, and the second half swivels and becomes a kind of
personal, family dynamic … It moved me to tears
*Elizabeth Day*
The poet and essayist turns her hand to fiction in this fragmentary
tale that addresses urgent questions about the absurdity of the
digital world
*Harper's Bazaar*
An eagerly awaited novel . . . about a woman whose life is
overwhelmed by the internet
*The Times*
Set to be one of 2021’s biggest books . . . riveting
*Daily Mail*
I really admire and love this book. Patricia Lockwood is a
completely singular talent and this is her best, funniest,
weirdest, most affecting work yet
*Sally Rooney*
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