Take, for example, this 2011 sext: “I am a living male turtleneck. When she joined Twitter in 2011, she soon amassed a devoted following enamored by her surreal, playfully raunchy “sexts”: gnomic shards of poetry combining erotica and webspeak. At nineteen, Lockwood met her now-husband in a poetry chatroom at twenty-one, they married, and Lockwood set about seeking a wider audience for her poetry. Two decades later, Lockwood writes less about Jesus and mermaids than she once did, but the kinetic call and response that characterized her early years online now seems a blueprint for the forces animating her outstanding debut novel, No One is Talking About This, a visceral rendering of an influencer’s life in “the slipstream of information.” Though No One is Talking About This is Lockwood’s first novel, it’s also a culmination of a life made and unmade online, beginning with Lockwood’s transformative “deprogramming” from her conservative Catholic upbringing (memorably captured in her acclaimed 2017 memoir, Priestdaddy), courtesy of deep dives into progressive websites about infertility and late-term abortions. Rumaan Alam Talks Demystifying His Writing Process.
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