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Elliptical Selfhood | Los Angeles Review of Books

Patricia Lockwood goes behind the scenes of her recent novel ‘Will There Ever Be Another You’ and its explorations of long COVID, memory, and identity.
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Patricia Lockwood goes behind the scenes of her recent novel ‘Will There Ever Be Another You’ and its explorations of long COVID, memory, and identity.​


The interview contains lots of talk about "chronic mental illness":

Mental illness, especially chronic mental illness, blurs the boundaries between the mind and the body. A realistic element of the book that I appreciated was that it was difficult, even for the narrator, to relate whether what was happening in her mind was making her sick or if it was her physical sickness that was affecting her mind.​

About the author:

Patricia Lockwood is the best-selling author of the Booker Prize finalist and Dylan Thomas Prize–winning novel No One Is Talking About This, named one of the “10 Best Books of 2021” by The New York Times Book Review and one of The Atlantic’s “Great American Novels” of the past 100 years. Her other books include the memoir Priestdaddy, named one of the “10 Best Books of 2017” by The New York Times Book Review, as well as two poetry collections. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, and the London Review of Books, where she is a contributing editor.
 
Chandelier said:
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Elliptical Selfhood | Los Angeles Review of Books

Patricia Lockwood goes behind the scenes of her recent novel ‘Will There Ever Be Another You’ and its explorations of long COVID, memory, and identity.
lareviewofbooks.org lareviewofbooks.org

Patricia Lockwood goes behind the scenes of her recent novel ‘Will There Ever Be Another You’ and its explorations of long COVID, memory, and identity.​


The interview contains lots of talk about "chronic mental illness":

Mental illness, especially chronic mental illness, blurs the boundaries between the mind and the body. A realistic element of the book that I appreciated was that it was difficult, even for the narrator, to relate whether what was happening in her mind was making her sick or if it was her physical sickness that was affecting her mind.​

About the author:

Patricia Lockwood is the best-selling author of the Booker Prize finalist and Dylan Thomas Prize–winning novel No One Is Talking About This, named one of the “10 Best Books of 2021” by The New York Times Book Review and one of The Atlantic’s “Great American Novels” of the past 100 years. Her other books include the memoir Priestdaddy, named one of the “10 Best Books of 2017” by The New York Times Book Review, as well as two poetry collections. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, and the London Review of Books, where she is a contributing editor.
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The UK LRB (not sure if affiliated) is very pro BPS so this framing isn't shocking, but what is shocking is Lockwood herself accepting it and using it as well.

Is she a literary Garner? I don't know much about her story.

It is disappointing that this is what passes for literary representation but given the literary worlds fetish for psychobehavioural nonsense its not particularly surprising.

Even Hilary Mantel, whose entire life was dogged by the medical negligence she experienced from the psychologising of her endometriosis and the complications it spawned, endorsed Suzanne O Sullivans The Sleeping Beauties in the Guardian shortly before her death.
 
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