Patricia Lockwood's 6 favorite books

Patricia Lockwood was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and raised in all the worst cities of the Midwest. She is the author of the poetry collections, Balloon Pop Outlaw Black and Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals, and the new memoir, Priestdaddy. One of her six favorite books, as shared at The Week magazine:

D.V. by Diana Vreeland

Please, I do not want you to die and go to hell before you read this book, which is 1,000 percent perfect in its way — except for the part where she starts collecting something called blackamoor heads, which you already know is gonna be weird before you look it up.

Read about the other entries on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue