"The award-winning author on her new book, her Covid-induced mania, and why there's a moment again for weirdness in literature Will 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 was experiencing long Covid-induced mania."
Will There Ever Be Another You features multiple scenes of Patricia Lockwood being interviewed, creating a metatextual layer that blends life and fiction. A prior appearance at a book festival is fictionalised within the narrative, folding a real public moment into the novel's structure. During that same festival appearance, Lockwood appeared charming, funny, and rhetorically spontaneous while experiencing long Covid-induced mania. The book frames performance, illness, and persona, probing how public presentation can mask intense private experience. The prose alternates immediacy and self-awareness, inviting readers into an uncanny interplay between autobiography and invented scenes.
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