![]() It's called "No One Is Talking About This." And the first half captures that feeling of doomscrolling through the Internet or the portal, as the book's protagonist calls it. SHAPIRO: Well, Tricia Lockwood's (ph) novel is out now. Inside, it was tropical and snowing, and the first flake of the blizzard of everything landed on her tongue and melted. LOCKWOOD: (Reading) She opened the portal, and the mind met her more than halfway. LOCKWOOD: Oh, and we have a PowerPoint, believe me. So Lockwood took part of the novel she was working on, wrote a new introduction and made a presentation. She was struggling to help care for her baby niece, who'd been born with a rare congenital disorder. ![]() SHAPIRO: She didn't have the bandwidth to write a lecture from scratch. ![]() And you're in there alone with the Rosetta Stone, and you finally get to crack it and find out what it means. ![]() I would love to give a lecture at the British Museum 'cause they close the museum. PATRICIA LOCKWOOD: You say yes to that when they ask you. And the invitation was to give a lecture at the British Museum. Two years ago, the London Review of Books made an offer that Patricia Lockwood couldn't refuse. ![]()
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