Watch writer-in-residence Patricia Lockwood’s recent events at The American Library in Paris:
Patricia Lockwood is a poet, memoirist, and novelist, best known for her characteristic blend of internet-age humor and profound emotional depth. Her breakout memoir, Priestdaddy, swings playfully between the sacred and the profane in its depiction of Lockwood’s upbringing in a conservative Catholic household. Lockwood’s poetry pushes the boundaries of both content and form, showcasing her knack for capturing the zeitgeist of the digital age. Her novel No One Is Talking About This combines the ephemerality of social media with eternal themes like family, grief, and caretaking, and deftly manages literary form to achieve distinctive moods and emotional effects. Across her work, Lockwood writes with a sharp and refreshing voice, and proves herself adept at examining the absurdities of our time with wit, warmth, and a penetrating eye.
Inspired by Patricia Lockwood’s work engaging with the internet and with the idea of ‘nowness,’ short-form internet writing and Felix Feneon’s Novels in Three Lines, join us for a conversation on the internet’s effects on writing and language. How does being online change one’s voice? How does the internet and its constraints and character limits affect language? Following the conversation, we’ll provide a series of prompts for audience members to write and respond to within a set character limit.
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The Writer-in-Residence program is generously supported by The de Groot Foundation.