A review by intrepid815
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
3.0
When a book about the internet tries this hard to be of-the-moment, it’s doomed to feel sliiightly behind the moment, inherently dated, a snapshot of a few minutes ago rather than a live feed. The time it takes to conceive of, write, publish, and market a novel like this is no match for the speed of the subject matter itself, sadly, and so the tongue-in-cheek / irony stuff didn’t quuuiiite land for me.
That being said, there’s a lot to appreciate here, and Lockwood’s frenetic prose-poetry builds to a surprisingly moving place.
I also just read Jenny Offill’s Weather, and the two made for an unintentionally fitting double-bill.
That being said, there’s a lot to appreciate here, and Lockwood’s frenetic prose-poetry builds to a surprisingly moving place.
I also just read Jenny Offill’s Weather, and the two made for an unintentionally fitting double-bill.