![]() ![]() The internet does not make most of us feel like our hands are literally bees. One of those is peripheral neuropathy she rations her phone and laptop use to avoid the buzzing, burning feeling that comes from too much scrolling. The 38-year-old author contracted COVID in March and, like an unknown but seemingly significant number of others, has experienced an array of mysterious symptoms even months after her initial illness. These days, the internet does cause Lockwood real suffering when she spends too much time online, her hands “burst into bees,” she told me over Zoom in January. ![]() She’s referring to Thom Yorke, but she might just as easily be talking about her own creator. “Certain people were born with the internet inside them and suffered greatly from it,” notes the narrator of Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This, out February 16 from Riverhead. ![]()
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