Patricia Lockwood contracted COVID in March 2020 and continues to experience lingering aftereffects that affect her mind, body, and art. She adopted a ketogenic diet, high in fat and low in carbohydrates, to help manage symptoms. Her husband, Jason Kendall, an agricultural-commodities researcher nicknamed Corn Man, suffered catastrophic hemorrhages three years earlier and has a fragile stomach. Dining choices became delicate for both, prompting specific menu requests. Lockwood is forty-three, with close-cropped hair, expressive hands, and rapid, matter-of-fact confidence. Playwright Heidi Schreck compared her to Hildegard von Bingen, noting a self-portrait evoking visionary intensity. Lockwood's lack of inhibition can lead to trouble.
Lockwood, who is forty-three, has close-cropped hair, expressive hands, and the rapid-fire, matter-of-fact confidence of someone who speaks even faster than she thinks. The playwright Heidi Schreck, who helped to adapt Lockwood's life story for television, told me, "The first thing that always comes to mind, when I think of Tricia, is that self-portrait of Hildegard von Bingen"-the twelfth-century German abbess and mystic,
When a waitress stopped by, Kendall ordered cauliflower tacos with no sauce; Lockwood asked for fish ones without tortillas. "It's very embarrassing, because it became a podcast diet," she said of her keto regimen, in a tone that suggested that embarrassment, for her, is more of a theoretical than a felt phenomenon. Lockwood, who is forty-three, has close-cropped hair, expressive hands, and the rapid-fire, matter-of-fact confidence of someone who speaks even faster than she thinks.
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