Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone even if it's the one

even if it's the one you're born into

The first volume's gravitational pull--a force inverse to its constriction--has the effect of a strong tranquilizer

wanting to share it with everyone I know

" proposing instead that "power and violence are opposites

Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone even if it's the oneFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism #1 Book of the Year from Brain Pickings Named a best book of the year by NPR, Newsweek, Slate, Pop Sugar, Marie Claire, Elle, Publishers Weekly, and Lit Hub A 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