![]() ‘She opened the portal, and the mind met her more than halfway. ‘This’ refers to ‘the portal’, the book’s word for the internet. No One is Talking About This is her first novel. ![]() (2017) featured a hilarious, tender portrait of her guitar-shredding, gun-loving Catholic priest father. You put your whole head through me.’ In 2013 she went viral with her prose-poem ‘Rape Joke’, which was deliberately, powerfully not funny, yet still let in some killer laughs. On Twitter she is known for her zany ‘sexts’: ‘I am a living male turtleneck. There are punchlines, there are callbacks. She is straightforwardly hit-the-rubber-nail-on-the-head funny. ![]() The American poet and essayist Patricia Lockwood isn’t one of them. ![]() Some writers - Jane Austen, for example - get to funny sideways, using irony and understatement. ![]()
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