Impish Verve and Provocative Guilelessness

I think Patricia Lockwood is one of the most original and invigorating novelists writing today. And she has a new book out that’s about her experience with long COVID. And it’s called Will There Ever Be Another You? Did I also mention that she’s pretty witty? But the best article I’ve read about her lately was in the New Yorker, and here’s the first sentence. It’s by Alexandra Schwartz. On a humid evening in May, Patricia Lockwood, who writes with the impish verve and provocative guilelessness of a peeing Cupid, was scanning the menu at a Mexican restaurant near her home in Savannah, Georgia. It sort of sets the scene, doesn’t it?

Yeah, but I don’t know. I think as an editor, I would have cut a lot of that.

I don’t know.

Yeah.

It’s too much ribbon for the size of the present, you know?

Well, I don’t, I think it’s consistent with her sense of humor.

A Patricia Lockwood sense of humor.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I bet she liked it.

We’ll link to that article and to Patricia Lockwood’s new book on our website at waywordradio.org.