Patricia Lockwood reads her story “
Fairy Pools,” from the May 26, 2025, issue of the magazine. Lockwood is a poet, essayist, and novelist. Her memoir “
Priestdaddy,” which came out in 2017, won the Thurber Prize, and her first novel, “
No One Is Talking About This,” won the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2022. A new novel, “
Will There Ever Be Another You,” from which this story was adapted, will come out later this year.