{"id":88326,"date":"2025-09-27T06:49:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T06:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/88326\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T06:49:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T06:49:18","slug":"patricia-lockwood-i-was-in-a-long-covid-fog-promoting-my-last-novel-i-did-it-all-completely-mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/88326\/","title":{"rendered":"Patricia Lockwood: \u2018I was in a long Covid fog promoting my last novel. I did it all completely mad\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nThe award-winning author on her new book, her Covid-induced mania, and why there\u2019s a moment again for weirdness in literature\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Patricia Lockwood: \u2018It felt a little bit dangerous and mysterious\u2019. Photo: Grep Hoax\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ir photo Grep Hoax.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Patricia Lockwood: \u2018It felt a little bit dangerous and mysterious\u2019. Photo: Grep Hoax<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Will There Ever Be Another You, Patricia Lockwood\u2019s new novel, features multiple scenes of the author being interviewed. It drapes a metatextual layer over proceedings as I interview her now; the last time we spoke, at a book festival where Lockwood was promoting her last novel, has been fictionalised as part of this new one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Then I make another discovery. During that same event, where Lockwood was charming, and funny, and every bit as rhetorically spontaneous as her prose, she was experiencing long Covid-induced mania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The award-winning author on her new book, her Covid-induced mania, and why there\u2019s a moment again for weirdness&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,2519],"class_list":{"0":"post-88326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-review-magazine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}