Patricia Lockwood Reads “Fairy Pools”

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🗓️ 18 May 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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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.

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0:00.0	eBay, it's the place to fall in love with new, pre-loved vintage and rare fashion over and over again.
0:06.7	Your favorite designers, expertly authenticated.
0:10.0	Yeah, eBay. Things people love.
0:26.6	This is the Writer's Voice, new fiction from The New Yorker.
0:29.9	I'm Deborah Treesman, fiction editor at The New Yorker.
0:34.8	On this week's episode of The Writer's Voice, we'll hear Patricia Lockwood read her story,
0:38.6	Ferry Pools from the May 26, 2025 issue of the magazine.
0:41.7	Lockwood is a poet, essayist, and novelist.
0:46.2	Her memoir, Priest's Daddy, which came out in 2017, won the Thurber Prize,
0:51.2	and her first novel, No One Is Talking About This, won the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2022.
0:57.2	A new novel, Will There Ever Be Another You, from which this story was adapted, will come out later this year.
0:58.9	Now here's Patricia Lockwood.
1:05.4	Fairy Pools
1:08.5	As soon as she touched down in Scotland, she believed in fairies.
1:14.6	No, as soon as the rock and velvet of Inverness rushed up to her where she was falling,
1:21.6	a long way through the haggstone hole of a cloud, and she plunged down into the center of the cloud and stayed there.
1:29.0	You used to set a child out for them, she thought, and was caught in the arms and awoke on the
1:34.9	Green Hillside.
1:37.2	"'Skoulin!' she heard her mother say, in a voice weak from lack of ice tea.
1:42.9	They were barely alive after five hours on the runway in
1:45.9	Chicago and another ten in the air. It's not the first real day, her husband kept reminding them.
1:53.6	After a short stay in Inverness that night, they would go on to sky tomorrow. He jangled a set of
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