Patricia Lockwood talks to Joanne O’Leary about becoming possessed by Vladimir Nabokov, reading Lolita as a teenage girl, the diagnostic value of Bend Sinister, and her anxiety about writing after having Covid-19.
‘Little girl, ya neck stinks. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh’
Patricia Lockwood and Joanne O’Leary
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