Patricia Lockwood

THE CULT NOVEL AS ADORED BY WRITERS AND FEMINIST ICONS ALIKE 30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION When Chris Kraus, an unsuccessful artist pushing 40, spends an evening with a rogue academic named Dick, she falls madly and inexplicably in love, enlisting her husband in her haunted pursuit. Dick proposes a kind of game between them, but when he fails to answer their letters Chris continues alone, transforming an adolescent infatuation into a new form of philosophy. Blurring the lines of fiction, essay and memoir, Chris Kraus's novel was a literary sensation when it was first published in 1997. Widely considered to be the most important feminist novel of the past three decades, I Love Dick is still essential reading; as relevant, fierce and funny as ever.

'Lockwood has a modern comic sensibility like no one else' The Times 'Characteristically witty, lyrical, sometimes bonkers' New York Times The world might be in disarray, but for one young woman, the very weave of herself seems to have loosened. Time and memories pass straight through her body, she’s afraid of her own floorboards, and the lyrics of ‘What Is Love’ play over and over in her ears. ‘I’m sorry not to respond to your email,’ she writes, ‘but I live completely in the present now.’ Tearing through the slippery terrains of fiction and reality, the possibility for human connection seems to beckon from the other side – and with it, the chance for a blinding re-emergence into the world. From one of our most original, inventive and prodigiously funny writers, Will There Ever Be Another You is a phosphorescent, wild and profound investigation into what keeps us alive in unprecedented times.

Emotionally profound and fiendishly funny, Will There Ever Be Another You is the hugely anticipated new novel from Patricia Lockwood - the 'voice of a generation'

THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS - WINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE AND THE ONLY BOOK SHORTLISTED FOR BOTH THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE AND WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONThe world might be in disarray, but for one young woman, the very weave of herself seems to have loosened. Time and memories pass straight through her body, she’s afraid of her own floorboards, and ‘WHAT IS LOVE? BABY DON’T HURT ME’ plays over and over in her ears. ‘I’m sorry not to respond to your email,’ she writes, ‘but I live completely in the present now.’ But tearing through the slippery terrains of fiction and reality, the possibility for human connection seems to beckon from the other side – and with it, the chance for a blinding re-emergence into the world.From one of our most original, inventive and prodigiously funny writers, Will There Ever Be Another You is a phosphorescent, wild and profound investigation into what keeps us alive in unprecedented times.Praise for Patricia Lockwood and No One Is Talking About This'Patricia Lockwood is the voice of a generation' Namita Gokhale'I really admire and love this book' Sally Rooney'I can't remember the last time I laughed so much reading a book' David Sedaris'A rare wonder . . . I was left in bits' Douglas Stuart

From the Booker Prize finalist and "formidably gifted writer" (The New York Times), a vertiginous novel about a woman's descent into illness and insanity. Amid a global pandemic, one young woman is trying to keep the pieces together - of her family, stunned by a devastating loss, and of her mind, left mangled and misfiring from a mystifying disease. She's afraid of her own floorboards, and "WHAT IS LOVE? BABY DON'T HURT ME" plays over and over in her ears. She hates her friends, or more accurately, she doesn't know who they are. Has the illness stolen her old mind and given her a new one? Does it mean she'll get to start over from scratch, a chance afforded to very few people? The very weave of herself seems to have loosened: time and memories pass straight through her body. "I'm sorry not to respond to your email," she writes, "but I live completely in the presentnow." Will There Ever Be Another You is the brain-shredding, phosphorescent story of one woman's dissolution and her attempt to create a new way of thinking, as well as a profound investigation into what keeps us alive in times of unprecedented disorientation and loss, from one of our most original writers.

A must-have new edition of Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, featuring a cover illustrated by Alison Bechdel, The New York Times bestselling author of Fun Home, and a new foreword by Patricia LockwoodTo the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family, the Ramseys, whose annual summer holiday in Scotland falls under the shadow of war, and a meditation on marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness. The novel's use of stream of consciousness, reminiscence and shifting perspectives gives it an intimate, poetic essence, and at the time of publication in 1927 it represented an utter rejection of all that had gone before.

A collectible hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, featuring a new foreword by Patricia Lockwood A Penguin Vitae Edition The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and the conflict between men and women. Penguin Vitae--loosely translated as Penguin of one's life--is a deluxe hardcover series from Penguin Classics celebrating a dynamic and diverse landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction from seventy-five years of classics publishing. Penguin Vitae provides readers with beautifully designed classics that have shaped the course of their lives, and welcomes new readers to discover these literary gifts of personal inspiration, intellectual engagement, and creative originality.

Finalist Bukerovskoj premiiMoschnaja pravdivaja istorija ot odnoj iz samykh aktualnykh i ostrykh na jazyk pisatelnits Ameriki - PlayboyLuchshaja kniga 2017 goda po versii The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Elle, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The New YorkerPremija Thurber Prize for American Humor (za luchshuju jumoristicheskuju knigu)Zabavnaja, nezhnaja, nepristojnaja, slozhnaja istorija, kotoraja s liricheskoj legkostju perekhodit ot tragedii k komedii. Lokvud iskrenne pishet ob identichnosti, religii, ljubvi i seme, - KirkusreviewsVozvraschatsja v roditelskij dom, kogda ty uzhe vzroslaja zamuzhnjaja zhenschina, - neprosto. A kogda tvoja semejka takaja kipuchaja i dazhe slegka bezumnaja - neprosto vdvojne. No obstojatelstva vynuzhdajut Patritsiju imenno k etomu... Avtobiograficheskaja kniga odnoj iz samykh ostroumnykh amerikanskikh poetess i pisatelnits. Rasskaz o detstve, provedennom na nischem Srednem Zapade, zavalennom jadernymi otkhodami, ob ottse - ekstsentrichnom katolicheskom svjaschennike-rokere, materi, govorjaschej zagadochnymi koanami, o pervoj ljubvi i otvage byt soboj.Derzkaja, odnovremenno trogatelnaja i komicheskaja istorija o tom, chto i vzroslye mogut ostavatsja legkomyslennymi i otkrovennymi.Patritsija Lokvud (1982 g. r.) - novoe litso amerikanskoj poezii, pisatelnitsa, esseist. Avtor knig "Svjatoj papochka", "Nikto ne govorit ob etom" i dr. Ee proizvedenija perevedeny na 20 jazykov, oni stanovjatsja virusnymi v internete, o nikh sporjat geroi Salli Runi, gljantsevye zhurnaly i sereznye kritiki.Perevodchik: Chajkovskaja Marija

Nominerad till Bookerpriset!En kvinna som blivit känd genom sina virala inlägg på sociala medier åker jorden runt för att träffa sina dyrkande fans, helt och hållet uppslukad av internet eller som hon benämner det: portalen. Är vi i helvetet? frågar personerna i portalen varandra. Kommer vi bara fortsätta såhär tills vi dör? Plötsligt tränger två meddelanden från hennes mamma igenom hinnan: Nåt har gått fel, och Hur fort kan du komma hit? Medan det verkliga livet krockar med den alltmer barocka portalen konfronterar kvinnan en värld som både verkar innehålla ett överflöd av bevis på att det finns godhet, empati, och rättvisa i universum, och svämma över av stöd för motsatsen.Ingen pratar om det här är lika mycket ett kärleksbrev till det ändlösa scrollandet som en gripande samtidsbetraktelse över kärlek, språk och mänsklig samhörighet, från en av vår tids mest originella röster.--Patricia Lockwood, »twitters hovpoet«, föddes i en husvagn i Fort Wayne, Indiana och växte upp i alla de sämsta städerna i Mellanvästern. Hon har tidigare gett ut två diktsamlingar och en självbiografi, och skriver regelbundet för London Review of Books.Helena Fagertun växte upp i Skråmträsk, Västerbotten och är verksam som redaktör och översättare. Hon har tidigare översatt bland andra Sally Rooney, Kate Zambreno och Mary MacLane till svenska.--»Jag beundrar och älskar den här boken. Patricia Lockwood är fullständigt unik.« Sally Rooney»Att läsa Patricia Lockwood är som att titta in i ett kalejdoskop tillverkat av en retsam magiker världen har plötsligt ordnats om i fragment som är kosmiska, förunderliga, förnedrande och profana. Ingen pratar om det här är en fängslande, ojämförlig roman, omskakande och full av liv.« Jia Tolentino

Patricia Lockwoodin teos Kukaan ei puhu tästä on nykyajassa vahvasti kiinni oleva kuvaus internetistä ja sen vaikutuksesta maailmaan. Lukijaansa haastava teos tarjoaa oivalluksia ajasta, jota elämme. ”Kaikki puhuvat tästä.” Harper's BazaarModerniksi klassikoksi ampaissut hauska ja musertava romaani internetin hallitsemasta olemassaolosta, ajan hengestä ja siitä, mitä kaikki tämä meille maksaa.Nainen kirjoittaa internettiin. Naisesta tulee julkkis. Mutta vääristä syistä. Hän häpeää, haluaa lopettaa, mutta bittiavaruuden lumo ei päästä häntä otteestaan. Kunnes hän saa viestin: ”On tapahtunut kamalia.” Alkaa hurja pako digitaalisesta aivosumusta sinne jonnekin, mihin somen valta ei ylety. Huimassa nosteessa oleva Patricia Lockwood tavoittaa tismalleen sen, millaista on elää juuri nyt, kun internetistä on tullut minuutemme kiinteä osa. Sensaatiomaisen romaanista tekee kuitenkin sen vilpitön, vereslihainen piipahdus älypuhelinten tuolla puolen. Voisimmeko puhua siitä?Patricia Lockwood (s. 1982) yhdysvaltalainen kirjailija, runoilija ja esseisti. Hänet tunnetaan 2013 internetsensaatioksi nousseesta Rape Joke -proosarunosta. Vuonna 2017 The New York Times valitsi hänen Priestdaddy-muistelmansa vuoden 10 parhaan kirjan joukkoon. Kukaan ei puhu tästä on Lockwoodin hartaasti odotettu esikoisromaani. Kirkus Reviews on kutsunut sitä ”oppaaksi siitä ajattelusta irrottautumiseen, että internet ei olisi osa todellista elämää ja taidetta”.

FINALIST FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE & A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOKWINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZEONE OF THE ATLANTIC'S GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS OF THE PAST 100 YEARS "A book that reads like a prose poem, at once sublime, profane, intimate, philosophical, witty and, eventually, deeply moving." --New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice "Wow. I can't remember the last time I laughed so much reading a book. What an inventive and startling writer...I'm so glad I read this. I really think this book is remarkable." --David Sedaris From "a formidably gifted writer" (The New York Times Book Review), a book that asks: Is there life after the internet? As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts travels around the world to meet her adoring fans. She is overwhelmed by navigating the new language and etiquette of what she terms "the portal," where she grapples with an unshakable conviction that a vast chorus of voices is now dictating her thoughts. When existential threats--from climate change and economic precariousness to the rise of an unnamed dictator and an epidemic of loneliness--begin to loom, she posts her way deeper into the portal's void. An avalanche of images, details, and references accumulate to form a landscape that is post-sense, post-irony, post-everything. "Are we in hell?" the people of the portal ask themselves. "Are we all just going to keep doing this until we die?" Suddenly, two texts from her mother pierce the fray: "Something has gone wrong," and "How soon can you get here?" As real life and its stakes collide with the increasingly absurd antics of the portal, the woman confronts a world that seems to contain both an abundance of proof that there is goodness, empathy, and justice in the universe, and a deluge of evidence to the contrary. Fragmentary and omniscient, incisive and sincere, No One Is Talking About This is at once a love letter to the endless scroll and a profound, modern meditation on love, language, and human connection from a singular voice in American literature.

* PRE-ORDER WILL THERE EVER BE ANOTHER YOU, THE LATEST SENSATION FROM PATRICIA LOCKWOOD *‘Patricia Lockwood is the voice of a generation’ Namita Gokhale‘A masterpiece’ Guardian‘I really admire and love this book’ Sally Rooney ‘An intellectual and emotional rollercoaster’ Daily Mail ‘I can’t remember the last time I laughed so much reading a book’ David Sedaris‘A rare wonder . . . I was left in bits’ Douglas Stuart* WINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2022 ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021 ** A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK *______________________________________________This is a story about a life lived in two halves. It’s about what happens when real life collides with the increasing absurdity of a world accessed through a screen. It’s about living in world that contains both an abundance of proof that there is goodness, empathy, and justice in the universe, and a deluge of evidence to the contrary.It's a meditation on love, language and human connection from one of the most original voices of our time.______________________________________________‘An utterly distinctive mixture of depth, dazzling linguistic richness, anarchic wit and raw emotional candour’ Rowan WilliamsA 2021 Book of the Year: Sunday Times, Guardian, Daily Mail, Telegraph, Evening Standard, The Times, New Statesman, Red, Observer, Independent, Daily Telegraph

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER "No One Is Talking About This reaches for the sublime, online and off...Lockwood is a modern word witch, her writing splendid and sordid by turns." --New York Times Book Review "Wow. I can't remember the last time I laughed so much reading a book. What an inventive and startling writer...I'm so glad I read this. I really think this book is remarkable." --David Sedaris From a formidably gifted writer (The New York Times Book Review), a book that asks: Is there life after the internet? As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts travels around the world to meet her adoring fans. She is overwhelmed by navigating the new language and etiquette of what she terms the portal, where she grapples with an unshakable conviction that a vast chorus of voices is now dictating her thoughts. When existential threats--from climate change and economic precariousness to the rise of an unnamed dictator and an epidemic of loneliness--begin to loom, she posts her way deeper into the portal's void. An avalanche of images, details, and references accumulate to form a landscape that is post-sense, post-irony, post-everything. Are we in hell? the people of the portal ask themselves. Are we all just going to keep doing this until we die? Suddenly, two texts from her mother pierce the fray: Something has gone wrong, and How soon can you get here? As real life and its stakes collide with the increasingly absurd antics of the portal, the woman confronts a world that seems to contain both an abundance of proof that there is goodness, empathy, and justice in the universe, and a deluge of evidence to the contrary. Fragmentary and omniscient, incisive and sincere, No One Is Talking About This is at once a love letter to the endless scroll and a profound, modern meditation on love, language, and human connection from a singular voice in American literature.

'Priestdaddy caused a sensation when it hit bookshelves in 2017' Vogue 'Glorious' Sunday Times'Laugh-out-loud funny' The Times'Extraordinary' Observer'Exceptional' Telegraph'Electric' New York Times'Snort-out-loud' Financial Times'Dazzling' Guardian'Do yourself a favour and read this memoir!' BookPageWINNER OF THE THURBER PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOURThe childhood of Patricia Lockwood, the poet dubbed 'The Smutty-Metaphor Queen of Lawrence, Kansas' by The New York Times, was unusual in many respects. There was the location: an impoverished, nuclear waste-riddled area of the American Midwest. There was her mother, a woman who speaks almost entirely in strange riddles and arnings of impending danger. Above all, there was her gun-toting, guitar-riffing, frequently semi-naked father, who underwent a religious conversion on a submarine and found a loophole which saw him approved for the Catholic priesthood by the future Pope Benedict XVI, despite already having a wife and children.When an unexpected crisis forces Lockwood and her husband to move back into her parents' rectory, she must learn to live again with the family's simmering madness, and to reckon with the dark side of her religious upbringing. Pivoting from the raunchy to the sublime, from the comic to the serious, Priestdaddy is an unforgettable story of how we balance tradition against hard-won identity - and of how, having journeyed in the underworld, we can emerge with our levity and our sense of justice intact.'Destined to be a classic . . . this year's must-read memoir' Mary Karr, author of The Liars' Club'Irrepressible . . . joyous, funny and filthy . . . Lockwood blows the roof off every paragraph' Joe Dunthorne, author of Submarine'Beautiful, funny and poignant. I wish I'd written this book' Jenny Lawson, author of Furiously Happy'A revelatory debut . . . Lockwood's prose is nothing short of ecstatic . . . her portrait of her epically eccentric family is funny, warm, and stuffed to bursting with emotional insight' Joss Whedon'Praise God, this is why books were invented' Emily Berry, author of Dear Boy and Stranger, Baby

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR NAMED ONE OF THE 50 BEST MEMOIRS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS BY THE NEW YORK TIMES SELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: The Washington Post * Elle * NPR * New York Magazine * Boston Globe * Nylon * Slate * The Cut * The New Yorker * Chicago Tribune WINNER OF THE THURBER PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR "Affectionate and very funny . . . wonderfully grounded and authentic. This book proves Lockwood to be a formidably gifted writer who can do pretty much anything she pleases." - The New York Times Book Review From Booker Prize finalist Patricia Lockwood, author of the novel No One Is Talking About This, a vivid, heartbreakingly funny memoir about balancing identity with family and tradition. Father Greg Lockwood is unlike any Catholic priest you have ever met--a man who lounges in boxer shorts, loves action movies, and whose constant jamming on the guitar reverberates "like a whole band dying in a plane crash in 1972." His daughter is an irreverent poet who long ago left the Church's country. When an unexpected crisis leads her and her husband to move back into her parents' rectory, their two worlds collide. In Priestdaddy, Lockwood interweaves emblematic moments from her childhood and adolescence--from an ill-fated family hunting trip and an abortion clinic sit-in where her father was arrested to her involvement in a cultlike Catholic youth group--with scenes that chronicle the eight-month adventure she and her husband had in her parents' household after a decade of living on their own. Lockwood details her education of a seminarian who is also living at the rectory, tries to explain Catholicism to her husband, who is mystified by its bloodthirstiness and arcane laws, and encounters a mysterious substance on a hotel bed with her mother. Lockwood pivots from the raunchy to the sublime, from the comic to the deeply serious, exploring issues of belief, belonging, and personhood. Priestdaddy is an entertaining, unforgettable portrait of a deeply odd religious upbringing, and how one balances a hard-won identity with the weight of family and tradition.

'The work of a genuine original ... surreal ... funny ... subversive' Sunday TimesWhat if a deer did porn? Is it legal to marry a stuffed owl exhibit? And what would Walt Whitman's tit-pics really look like?Free-wheeling and surreal yet deadly serious, and including the viral hit 'Rape Joke' ('An oblique mini-masterpiece' - Guardian), this book shows one of our most original poets at her virtuosic best.'Lockwood has written a book at once angrier, and more fun, more attuned to our times and more bizarre, than most poetry can ever get' Stephen Burt, The New York Times Book Review, Books of the Year'Lockwood should enter the canon forever . . . her lines left me crying on the subway' Kat Stoeffel, The Cut'The little hairs on my back rose often while reading Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals . . . That's biological praise, the most fundamental kind, impossible to fake' Dwight Garner, The New York Times