Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone and grow in self-awareness

and grow in self-awareness

Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times

both the violent protests and the peaceful and lawful decisions made at the ballot box in November of 2024

and try not to fall in love

Eloise has been delighting readers for more than sixty years--though she's still not a day over six

Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone and grow in self-awarenessFinalist 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