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  "path": "/journal/22433",
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-03T08:19:09.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "No One Is Talking About This",
    "I read it back in 2022",
    "A Ghost In The Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa",
    "autofiction",
    "Will There Ever Be Another You",
    "the language"
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  "textContent": "Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This knocked me for six when I read it back in 2022:\n\n> It’s like a slow-building sucker punch.\n\nLike my other favourite book of that year—A Ghost In The Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa—it’s hard to classify. I _think_ it’s autofiction. Not quite autobiography. Not quite fiction.\n\nWill There Ever Be Another You is also autofiction. I think. It might also be poetry (which shouldn’t be surprising as Patricia Lockwood is a poet after all).\n\nI can’t say that this one had the same emotional impact of No One Is Talking About This for me but then again, very little could.\n\nThe writing feels very impressionistic, with each chapter trying on a different mode. It’s kinda Joyceian …if James Joyce was stuck indoors during a global pandemic.\n\nThe narrative—such as it is—revolves around The Situation from 2020 onwards. That was a surreal bizarre time so it makes sense that this is a surreal bizarre book.\n\nI think I liked it. I can’t quite tell. I just let the language wash over me.\n\n",
  "title": "Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood"
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