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“The author’s photo has a very distant and otherworldly look, as if he is watching two dragons mating through a hole in the cloud,” he wrote of Edna O’Brien in his review. Lockwood, who is also the author of two volumes of poetry (his autobiographical poetry Rape Jokes went viral in 2013) and a Twitter sensation (his tweet review So paris is good or not” was voted twice by Atlantic as one of the best tweets of all time) has written some brilliant and hilarious essays on, among other things, at LRB, where he is on the editorial board. “įirst page of Nobody Talks About This started off as London Book Review a lecture entitled “The Communal Mind” at the British Museum almost exactly two years ago. Or because, and it’s scarier, that’s how portals write. “Why are we all writing like this now? Since new types of connections have to be made, and blinks, synapses, a little space in between is the only way to make them.

This, Lockwood’s first novel, begins as a series of fragmented and short intelligent observations. It is also a very different animal stylistically from its very famous comic memoirs Priestdaddy, which is sometimes overcrowded and crowded. But fortunately, this novel is more than just a change in the online world. I started thinking about other missing things that people don’t talk about today: Compuserve, Netscape, Altavista, Ask Jeeves, all the pre-Google search engines, and the world before the iPhone, when the idea of searching for the name of an Actor that you forgot about as you walked- the road is a dream item. Initially, I thought the title was referring to aspects of the internet and its disappearing history, as in, “‘MySpace is all of life’, she almost cried in a bookstore in Chicago … ‘And it’s lost, it’s gone, it’s gone.’ “ This is a novel, Patricia Lockwood said in her Twitter feed, about being very on the internet and then being very outside of it.

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