Patricia Lockwood goes behind the scenes of her recent novel ‘Will There Ever Be Another You’ and its explorations of long COVID, memory, and identity.

Do you see any parallels between the inner experience of mental illness and the world at large?

We’ll know more about that in the future, I think. One of the books that I was thinking about while writing the book was Down Below by Leonora Carrington, which was about her mental disintegration and institutionalization when the Nazis were invading. To some extent, I read it and found myself thinking that hers was a reasonable reaction. I think some people are a little bit more in the wind of the world that way.