Patricia Lockwood
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"From "a formidably gifted writer" (The New York Times Book Review), a book that asks: Is there life after the internet? As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts travels around the world to meet her adoring fans. She is overwhelmed by navigating the new language and etiquette of what she terms "the portal," where she grapples with an unshakable conviction that a vast...
2) Priestdaddy
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Father Greg Lockwood is unlike any Catholic priest you have ever met, a man who lounges in boxer shorts, loves action movies, and whose constant jamming on the guitar reverberates like a whole band dying in a plane crash in 1972. His daughter is an irreverent poet who long ago left the Church's country. When an unexpected crisis leads her and her husband to move back into her parents' rectory, their two worlds collide. In Priestdaddy, Lockwood interweaves...
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
viii, 214 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In this exciting mix of memoir and music writing, spanning the golden age of vinyl and the streaming era, 50 great writers share the albums that changed their lives, revealing the music's power to transport the listener to a particular time and place.
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
The iconic writer whose prose was as influential and as it is unmistakably hers is joined in conversation with Sheila Heti, Hilton Als, Dave Eggers, Hari Kunzru and many more.
Some writers define a generation. Some a genre. Joan Didion did both, and much more. Didion rose to prominence with her nonfiction collection, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, and she quickly became the writer who captured the zeitgeist of the washed-out, acid hangover...
Some writers define a generation. Some a genre. Joan Didion did both, and much more. Didion rose to prominence with her nonfiction collection, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, and she quickly became the writer who captured the zeitgeist of the washed-out, acid hangover...