The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism #1 Book of the Year from Brain PickingsNamed a best book of the year by NPR,…
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The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism #1 Book of the Year from Brain PickingsNamed a best book of the year by NPR, Newsweek, Slate, Pop Sugar, Marie Claire, Elle, Publisher's Weekly, and Lit HubA dazzling work of biography, memoir, and cultural criticism on the subject of loneliness, told through the lives of iconic artists, by the acclaimed author of The Trip to Echo Spring.When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her midthirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Moving from Edward Hopper's Nighthawks to Andy Warhol's Time Capsules, from Henry Darger's hoarding to David Wojnarowicz's AIDS activism, Laing conducts an electric, dazzling Increasingly fascinated by the most shameful of experiences, she began to explore the lonely city by way of art.
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