Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone grenades are falling all around

grenades are falling all around them

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

" proposing instead that "power and violence are opposites

Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times

wanting to share it with everyone I know

Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone grenades are falling all aroundFinalist 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