Talking Volumes featuring Patricia Lockwood

Name: Talking Volumes featuring Patricia Lockwood
Start: 2025-09-25T19:00:00-05:00
Location: The Fitzgerald Theater

Schedule

Thu, 25 Sep, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

The Fitzgerald Theater | St Paul, MN

MPR News & The Minnesota Star Tribune present Talking Volumes
The Fitzgerald Theater
- Wednesday, September 10, 2025 with Stacey Abrams
- Thursday, September 25, 2025 with Patricia Lockwood
- Sunday, September 28, 2025 with Misty Copeland
- Thursday, October 23, 2025 with John Grisham
- Monday, November 17, 2025 with Kate Baer*
Hosted by Kerri Miller
*Hosted by Catharine Richert
All Ages events

Tickets on sale July 21 at 10am → https://firstavenue.me/4lmzX3p
September 10, September 25, October 23, and November 17 shows
6:00 PM Doors
7:00 PM Showtime
MPR News and the Star Tribune are proud to announce the 26th season of Talking Volumes. Talking Volumes is hosted by award-winning MPR News journalist Kerri Miller. We are happy to announce that we will be back in the historic Fitzgerald Theater this fall for five special events.
Thursday, September 25 at 7:00 p.m. – Patricia Lockwood – Will There Ever Be Another You (Sep 23, 2025; Penguin Random House)
About the Author
Patricia Lockwood is the author of the novel No One Is Talking About This, a 2021 Booker Prize finalist and one of The New York Times Book Review’s Ten Best Books of 2021, and the memoir Priestdaddy, one of The New York Times Book Review’s Ten Best Books of 2017, as well as the poetry collections Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals and Balloon Pop Outlaw Black. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, and the London Review of Books, where she is a contributing editor.
About the Book
From the Booker Prize finalist and “formidably gifted writer” (The New York Times), a vertiginous novel about a woman’s descent into illness and insanity.
Amid a global pandemic, one young woman is trying to keep the pieces together – of her family, stunned by a devastating loss, and of her mind, left mangled and misfiring from a mystifying disease. She’s afraid of her own floorboards, and “WHAT IS LOVE? BABY DON’T HURT ME” plays over and over in her ears. She hates her friends, or more accurately, she doesn’t know who they are.
Has the illness stolen her old mind and given her a new one? Does it mean she’ll get to start over from scratch, a chance afforded to very few people? The very weave of herself seems to have loosened: time and memories pass straight through her body. “I’m sorry not to respond to your email,” she writes, “but I live completely in the present now.”
Will There Ever Be Another You is the brain-shredding, phosphorescent story of one woman’s dissolution and her attempt to create a new way of thinking, as well as a profound investigation into what keeps us alive in times of unprecedented disorientation and loss, from one of our most original writers.