Patricia Lockwood: No One Is Talking about This (2021, Penguin Publishing Group)
224 pages
English language
Published May 11, 2021 by Penguin Publishing Group.
this is the best novel about twitter and the relation to ... actual problems but also...
I didn't need more twitter in my life. Author achievedd their goals, which is praiseworthy
crushing and beautiful and accurate and I can't wait to read (and cry through) it again
Was not expecting something this popular to be this good, because I’m an idiot.
Decades from now I will point to this book if anyone asks what it was like to live in 2017-2019. We new we weren’t really funny on the internet, but we tried to be until that didn’t work anymore because life got too real to be clever about it. And then we kept doing it anyway.
I'm very curious how someone who isn't extremely online would read this novel, but for me it was probably the most honest articulation of the experience of living with online? But also living with the weirdness and grief and absurdity and poetry of These Times, more generally. I want more books like this.
