No one is talking about this was declared one of the top 10 books of 2021 by The New York Times. In no one is talking about this, Lockwood floats through the themes and memes of fascism, sex, postmodernism, womanhood, and being extremely on the internet.
‘Ahahahha,’ one reply read – which is, as Patricia Lockwood’s protagonist points out, the “new and funnier way to laugh.” Her 2021 debut work of fiction, though, is content with all parts of our cloud, high and low. I had scrolled through the various white women replies, ‘CRYING UR SO FUNNY,’ and the inevitable, ‘why is no one talking about this!’ In the thrall of five-second celebrity and emotional validation, I felt as though I had finally reached the ceiling of the cloud, where the prophets of our time talked and laughed and laughed and talked. When the tweet first began to gain momentum, my friends and I had taken turns holding my phone as infinite, electrifying notifications buzzed in.
The tweet – populist satire about breakups – now reads as trite, and more than a little too bitter. Last December, while performing a post-mortem of my recent boyfriend with some friends, I unexpectedly fulfilled a lifelong goal: going seriously viral on Twitter (I am now at 130 thousand likes, thank you very much). Patricia Lockwood’s no one is talking about this will inevitably be read by people who are already talking about this
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