No One Is Talking About This
2021 novel by Patricia Lockwood
No One Is Talking About This is the debut novel by American poet Patricia Lockwood, published in 2021. It was simultaneously released in the United States and United Kingdom via Riverhead and Bloomsbury, respectively. The novel focuses on an unnamed woman engaged with social media full time. Her life changes focus after the birth of her niece.
The novel received critical acclaim and major attention from outlets, magazines, literary journals, and other media upon release. Commentators compared the style, tone, and substance of the novel to that of other writers in the American, Irish and British 20th-century tradition like William Faulkner, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Joan Didion; and the novel was also pronounced a product of Jane Austen's heritage. It became one of the most widely-reviewed and honored books of the year.
It was a finalist for the 2021 Booker Prize, was one of The New York Times' "10 Best Books of 2021", and won the 2022 Dylan Thomas Prize. In 2024, The Atlantic added it as one of 136 books since 1925 to be named a "Great American Novel".
Overview
The book is partitioned into two parts.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “No One Is Talking About This” is 2021 novel by Patricia Lockwood. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Talking, novel and Patricia, not as a finished interpretation.
Why this record matters
The phrase “2021 novel by Patricia Lockwood” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q105686775. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2021, 2022, 2024 and 1925.
Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
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