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the Lonely City: Adventures Art of Being Alone
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the Lonely City: Adventures Art of Being Alone
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the Lonely City: Adventures Art of Being Alone
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When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by the most shameful of experiences, she began to explore the lonely city by way of art. 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 investigation into what it means to be alone, illuminating not only the causes of loneliness but also how it might be resisted and redeemed.
Humane, provocative, and moving,
is a celebration of a strange and lovely state, adrift from the larger continent of human experience, but intrinsic to the very act of being alive.