Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Book cover: "Will There Ever Be Another You" by Patricia Lockwood. (Riverhead, David Levenson/Getty Images) There's something ...

Patricia Lockwood’s humorous and autobiographical “Will There Ever Be Another You” (Riverhead, 256 pages, $29) recounts a few years in the life of a writer named Patricia, whose career mirrors the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Los Angeles Times illustration; book jacket from Riverhead) Some years ago, I was interviewing a Columbia neurologist for a ...

One solution for representing the internet-augmented discontinuity of contemporary life is the fragment novel. Seas of white space separate paragraphs, which together compose archipelago chapters; ...

Late in her 2017 memoir, “Priestdaddy,” Patricia Lockwood writes about growing up in a world of “male systems and male anger,” a world that began at home with the actions of her father, a bombastic, ...

There's something slightly disorienting that takes place when a word is said over and over again. Platypus. Platypus. Platypus. The more the word is repeated, the more it loses its meaning while ...

In 2020, Patricia Lockwood lost her mind. Not in the way that everyone lost their minds — all the grocery-sanitizing and sourdough-baking; the insistence that Zoom “raves” were fun and that your ...

Some years ago, I was interviewing a Columbia neurologist for a potential article on imaging. After a tour of her laboratory and MRI scanner, dialogue about the frontal cortex and the mysteries of ...