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No One Is Talking About This: A Novel Audiobook
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FINALIST FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE & A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF 2021 “A book that reads like a prose poem, at once sublime, profane, intimate, philosophical, witty and, eventually, deeply moving.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice “Wow. I can’t remember the last time I laughed so much reading a book. What an inventive and startling writer…I’m so glad I read this. I really think this book is remarkable.” —David Sedaris From "a formidably gifted writer" (The New York Times Book Review), a book that asks: Is there life after the internet? As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts travels around the world to meet her adoring fans. She is overwhelmed by navigating the new language and etiquette of what she terms "the portal," where she grapples with an unshakable conviction that a vast chorus of voices is now dictating her thoughts. When existential threats--from climate change and economic precariousness to the rise of an unnamed dictator and an epidemic of loneliness--begin to loom, she posts her way deeper into the portal's void. An avalanche of images, details, and references accumulate to form a landscape that is post-sense, post-irony, post-everything. "Are we in hell?" the people of the portal ask themselves. "Are we all just going to keep doing this until we die?" Suddenly, two texts from her mother pierce the fray: "Something has gone wrong," and "How soon can you get here?" As real life and its stakes collide with the increasingly absurd antics of the portal, the woman confronts a world that seems to contain both an abundance of proof that there is goodness, empathy, and justice in the universe, and a deluge of evidence to the contrary. Fragmentary and omniscient, incisive and sincere, No One Is Talking About This is at once a love letter to the endless scroll and a profound, modern meditation on love, language, and human connection from a singular voice in American literature.
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"The structure of this book is disjointed, jumping from thought to thought in the form of tweets, texts, and classic narration, which makes it a little tough to listen to at first. But you get used to it after a little while thanks to the careful pauses in the narration. Later it becomes tough to listen to for different reasons that I was not emotionally prepared for as a new parent. I find myself thinking about it often."
— ElizabethT (4 out of 5 stars)
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“Wow. I can’t remember the last time I laughed so much reading a book.”
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“Sieh’s clarity, audible smiles, and raised-eyebrow-irony, along with perfect timing on the tumbling witticisms, enhance this inventive consideration of the human connection. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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“A fast and furious debut novel about being embedded deep in the digital world.”
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“A must-read for all of us social media users.”
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“Explores the kind of tumult and grief that almost defies language as well as the frightening uniformity of the online herds.”
— New York Times -
“Brings the chaos and comedy of social media to print.”
— Seattle Times -
“Never has the experience of being Extremely Online been more viscerally rendered than in No One Is Talking About This, Lockwood’s astonishing novel.”
— Esquire -
“[An] attention-grabbing mind-blower which toggles between irony and sincerity, sweetness and blight.”
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“An insightful—frequently funny, often devastating—meditation on human existence online and off.”
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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A Harper’s Bazaar Pick of Best Books of 2021
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Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
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Finalist for the Booker Prize
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A New York Times Top 10 Book of 2021
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A Time Magazine Best Book of the Year
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A Washington Post Best Book of 2021
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An Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year
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An NPR Best Book of the Year
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An Esquire Magazine Best Book of the Year
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A Vulture.com Pick of the Year
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A PopSugar Best Books Pick for 2021
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A Buzzfeed Best Books of the Year Selection
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Among shortlisted titles for Booker Prize, 2021
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Among shortlisted titles for Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, 2021
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Among shortlisted titles for Women's Prize for Fiction, 2021
No One Is Talking About This Listener Reviews
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elizabeth trussell, 7/31/2021
About Patricia Lockwood
Patricia Lockwood is the author of two poetry collections, Balloon Pop Outlaw Black and Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals, a New York Times Notable Book, and the memoir Priestdaddy, which was named one of the ten best books of 2017 by the New York Times Book Review. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, New Yorker, New Republic, and London Review of Books, where she is a contributing editor.
About Kristen Sieh
Kristen Sieh is a voice and television actress. She has appeared on such television shows as Law & Order and Boardwalk Empire. She has also narrated several audio books.