Patricia Lockwood Books

From the first page, I wanted the portal to feel like a fever dream—the speed, the scattershot humor, the collective murmur of millions of voices speaking at once. The protagonist scrolls without end, her mind stitched to her device, her emotions mediated through public commentary. She is famous for...

From No One Is Talking About This

The turning point arrives like a notification, unremarkable yet world-altering. Her mother texts that something is wrong with her sister’s pregnancy. The words yank her out of the portal’s current; suddenly, all that had seemed vast and omnipresent appears laughably small. The novel’s very texture c...

From No One Is Talking About This

There’s a particular kind of humility that comes with knocking on your childhood door as an adult, suitcases of failure in hand. For me, the move back to my parents’ Midwest rectory was a kind of religious experience in itself—though one composed more of Wi-Fi passwords and microwave dinners than in...

From Priestdaddy

My father’s existence as both priest and husband is the axis upon which *Priestdaddy* spins. His ordination was a loophole in doctrine—a kind of ecclesiastical clerical error that persisted into myth. He had converted from Lutheranism, and Rome, in an uncharacteristic moment of leniency, allowed him...

From Priestdaddy