do you think he’s in here

ahahahaha

yes it’s my naked lunch. it’s my book Bikini Dinner.

Love this. Roger Shattuck's old house is just a couple miles from my own here in rural VT. I drive almost every day past the field where he used a scythe to make hay. A SCYTHE. Dude even won the hand-mowing contest at our county fair. Legend.

a certain rosy little claus in training has some book recommendations for u

me bursting out of the pub dramatically at 12am: who’s going to take me back to my hotel *absolute unit of a cunt of a slice of rough trade turns very slowly in my direction*

Ten (1991)

touring is so bizarre … you check into your hotel that first morning like “I going to commit suicide” and 72 hours later you’re on your sixth shot running through the streets screaming I LIVE FOR THIS

getting a highly specific reputation over her that’s like 1) she doesn’t understand how buying rounds works 2) she freely flings her rubies at males while women writhe in a hellish pile below

sort of an interesting development happening over here unrelated to the necklace

UPDATE: Tall Hands gave it to his gf. the balance is restored

last night of course descended into total madness as I kept wrapping napkins around people’s shoulders and ordering them to “be a baby again”

finally it is time.

perfect pussy. now appearing in the paris review

International scandal last night as a tall MAN grabbed the necklace with his tall hand … I must make reparations to the jumping women of London

We love this book - hope you'll come and see the real deal at RAMM when you've finished it! 💛

Thee @tricialockwood.bsky.social signing copies of her new novel WILL THERE EVER BE ANOTHER YOU ahead of our event with her tomorrow night! There's still a handful of tickets left - grab one now before they go: lrb.me/ya3 @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

explicit pickle pic

making ad hoc cocktails (ad hoctails?) with punishing juices from white pine

ooooh I can go get the natto pancake at abeno … and the umeboshi onigiri

In this house we respect the man who put the oxygen enrichment system in the Rolls-Royce Merlin

🙋‍♀️Patricia Lockwood 🙋‍♀️ Has joined the ↪️ Sequential Gearbox Web Ring ↩️

oh nothing just locked in my hotel room reading a book about SEALS, FINGER RINGS, ENGRAVED GEMS AND AMULETS. jealous

I will be giving away a ruby necklace that I made … I’m gonna make Joe wear it for the event and then we’ll blindfold him, let him stumble into the crowd, and see whose hand he touches first. and that’s a Promise

for all those trying not to give SIR HARRY RICARDO (1885-1974) MECHANICAL ENGINEER his flowers …….. fuck off

new poems in this issue!!!

here are the tour cards for my US stops! seems uh sort of insane in retrospect but we’re doing it

also: reaction image

if you have not gotten a copy, well, my new book SIMPLICITY is still available wherever fine books are sold and i would love for you to read it. simplicitybook.xyz

we have reached the apotheosis of ketorecipes (best subreddit in the history of forums.) it will never get better from here

Next Tuesday, @tricialockwood.bsky.social will be at Conway Hall talking to Joe Dunthorne about her new novel, WILL THERE EVER BE ANOTHER YOU, in her only UK event for the book. Tickets here:

A reminder that I will be hosting a book party in my backyard for @tricialockwood.bsky.social's wonderful new book on September 27. The theme is mushrooms. 🍄🍄🍄 Get your tickets before they sell out! bluecypressbooks.indielite.org/event/PatriciaLockwood-WillThereEver

was quite shocked to read that part on the same day my bf put korn on in the bookstore where we work, the same day i found this in the bookstore where we do not work. it must "mean something"

KORN was on monk. that one time.

You would like my latest: Risk-Level Place Situation

I gotta start writing books like this

someone went ahead and did this btw

3 years ago today. released.

the most powerful creature in the whole world probably

I wrote about the delectable, incredible new novel by @tricialockwood.bsky.social for @newrepublic.com and the "Covid novel," Joe Brainard, Joy Williams, posting through it, and whether or not Twitter is a form of poetry. newrepublic.com/article/1983...

@thankyoubooks.bsky.social all the way tf locked in for @tricialockwood.bsky.social !!!! Preorder here: thankyoubookshop.com/item/ZoOPMvN...

also the pic is by peter garritano and necessitated me balancing on a swinging sex bed suspended from the ceiling in an air-conditionless honeymoon suite while trying to kiss my reflection on the ceiling

Guys, I have a special & unusual request today. My cousin Sean is a union bus driver here in Los Angeles who was just FIRED in retaliation for saying he would not let masked ICE agents onto his bus to abduct riders. The fight is on to get his job back, you can help: actionnetwork.org/letters/send...

PSA: Strange Days is on Hulu/Disney+ right now in the US

also: reaction image

Over on insta my publisher is giving away a copy of The Payback and a pair of Warby Parker sunglasses to go with it, if you’re into contests.

and a little lick for dissidents only

I'm gonna call it: it happens this month. Prayer warriors, join hands.

some consolation from our boy. there are other worlds.