

Lockwood’s debut novel, No One Is Talking About This, is in some ways a more substantial attempt to answer the question posed by the essay.


The ass will take up residence in my mind. Of her efforts to reclaim some mental space from the endless swirling absurdity of online life, she wrote: “If I look at a phone first thing the phone becomes my brain for the day If I open up Twitter and the first thing I see is the president’s weird bunched ass above a sand dune as he swings a golf club I am doomed. The piece was an attempt to reckon with the damage done to a creative mind by years of excessive exposure to the internet. I n 2018, the American writer Patricia Lockwood published an essay entitled “How Do We Write Now?”.
