Join us for a conversation with Writer-in-Residence Patricia Lockwood on the internet’s effects on writing, and an interactive seminar to experiment with form and fragmentation.
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.
About the speaker:
Patricia Lockwood is the author of four books, including the 2021 novel “No One Is Talking About This,” an international bestseller, winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize, finalist for the Booker Prize, and translated into 30 languages. Her 2017 memoir “Priestdaddy” won the Thurber Prize for American Humor and was named one of the Guardian’s 100 best books of the 21st century. She also has two poetry collections, “Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals” (2014) and “Balloon Pop Outlaw Black” (2012). Lockwood’s work has appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, and the London Review of Books, where she is a contributing editor. She lives in Savannah, Georgia.
Reverberations:
In March, the Library is delighted to be hosting Reverberations: Literature Out Loud, a festival spotlighting innovations in the arts. In a series of concerts, conversations, and workshops, artists and authors are coming together to celebrate the history of storytelling and sound. Learn more about the festival and discover other events.
Reverberations is organized in partnership with the Opéra Comique and with the generous support of Festival Napa Valley, the American Center for Arts and Culture, and the Florence Gould Foundation.
