Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone Whether subsisting on caterpillars for

Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times

grenades are falling all around them

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

and Amanda wrote down every life-saving answer

Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone Whether subsisting on caterpillars forFinalist 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