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“I wrote it insane, and edited it sane,” Patricia Lockwood says, of her new novel, which is a singular account of losing her mind, body, and art to COVID . Plus:

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“I wrote it insane, and edited it sane,” Lockwood said of the book. Photograph by Peter Garritano for The New Yorker

Alexandra Schwartz

A staff writer covering books and culture.

Back in the good old days of Twitter, the writer Patricia Lockwood helped to make the internet silly and sublime with tweets such

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