Patricia Lockwood: ‘I was in a long Covid fog promoting my last novel. I did it all completely mad’

The award-winning author on her new book, her Covid-induced mania, and why there’s a moment again for weirdness in literature

Patricia Lockwood: ‘It felt a little bit dangerous and mysterious’. Photo: Grep Hoax

W ill There Ever Be Another You, Patricia Lockwood’s new novel, features multiple scenes of the author being interviewed. It drapes a metatextual layer over proceedings as I interview her now; the last time we spoke, at a book festival where Lockwood was promoting her last novel, has been fictionalised as part of this new one.

Then I make another discovery. During that same event, where Lockwood was charming, and funny, and every bit as rhetorically spontaneous as her prose, she

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