Is is being translated into 20 languages (all of which Lockwood plans to display in a fancy glass-fronted cabinet. It has appeared on dozens of best book of the year lists including the Washington Post, NPR, and Time. Besides the Booker, her national and international best-selling zeitgeist novel, "No One is Talking About This," was also a finalist for the The Woman’s Prize for Fiction and The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. It has been a whirlwind year for Lockwood, who has earned a reputation for her raunchy wit and incomparable, poetic prose. Part of it was, the length of time it took to be released did go into determining how slowly the egg should come out of my mouth.” A 'whirlwind' year for the author Certainly one of the funniest pieces of publicity I’ve ever seen. We have big plans for the egg,’ and they made, what I would say, is an incredible video. More: 'No One is Talking About This' author Patricia Lockwood talks about the internet and COVID blues “I had originally shot it for something that was released earlier and they didn’t use it, and of course they didn’t use a video of me pulling an egg out of my mouth,” explained Lockwood over the phone. While the other authors gave sincere, albeit conventional answers to the question, Lockwood responded with a surreal physical performance involving a stone from her large mineral collection. At least, that is the impression given by Lockwood in a video produced by The Booker asking the short-listed authors what their responses to the nominations were. The Booker Prize is one of the highest honors an author can receive for fiction, so what was it like for Savannah’s Patricia Lockwood to be short-listed for the prestigious award?Īpparently it was like having a polished, egg-shaped stone emerge slowly from your mouth like an unhatched poem.
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