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An Interview with Patricia Lockwood, Poet Laureate of Twitter

An Interview with Patricia Lockwood, Poet Laureate of Twitter

Patricia Lockwood:

The reason people like @graeyalien are funnier than “twitter comedians” is because their tweets operate in two more dimensions. They consider who is speaking the tweet, and they consider whether the tweet looks funny. They create a character, and they apply small systematic derangements of punctuation, spelling, and capitalization appropriate to that character.