Patricia Lockwood is the author of the just published & universally praised novel No One Is Talking About This and the memoir Priestdaddy, which was named one of the ten best books of 2017 by The New York Times Book Review, and two poetry collections, Balloon Pop Outlaw Black and Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals, a New York Times Notable Book. Lockwood’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, and the London Review of Books, where
she is a contributing editor. She is also the recipient of the
2018 Thurber Prize for American Humor.
For four years, Jen Spyra was a staff writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, McSweeney’s, The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Beast, The Onion and elsewhere. Big Time, just out this March, is Spyra's debut collection of raucous, dark, strange, satirical stories and features a foreword by Stephen Colbert, and has been lauded by comedic royalty.
Rave Reviews for both Lockwood and Spyra
“Lockwood is a modern word witch, her writing splendid and sordid by turns . . . The chief virtue of the novel is how it transforms all that is ugly and cheap about online culture […] into an experience of sublimity.” —New York Times Book Review
“Wow. I can’t remember the last time I laughed so much reading a book. What an inventive and startling writer. Patricia Lockwood is a little like George Saunders in that she can write abstract characters and still make them real, and not just clever arrangements of words. Like Lorrie Moore she somehow crafts a devastating story out of jokes. I’m so glad I read this. I really think this book is remarkable.” —David Sedaris, author of Calypso
“Jen Spyra’s stories are shocking, silly, smart, and absurdly funny. Underline both those words, I don’t care how much it costs!”—Tina Fey
“When I first met Jen, I thought she was a deeply funny, normal woman. After reading her hilarious book of stories, I see she is even funnier than I thought, though exponentially less normal. It’s a pretty good trade-off.”—Mindy Kaling
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