Beautiful, evocative writing… Highly informative and both artful and accessible. It is very much a story and study of loneliness told through art and artists, ...

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 ...

2016年3月1日 · When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated ...

Humane, provocative and moving, The Lonely City is a celebration of a ... 'Luminously wise and deeply compassionate, The Lonely City is a fierce and essential ...

The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone is a non-fiction book written by Olivia Laing. The book was first published by Picador in 2016 and, like Laing's previous works, it blends research, biography and memoir.

2016年3月17日 · A memoir considers how cultural figures like Andy Warhol and Edward Hopper might ease the pain of urban loneliness.

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 ...

2016年3月19日 · The story of Greta Garbo and her stalker, the paparazzo Ted Leyson, casts a shadow over the objectifying or “meat-making” gaze recorded in ...

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 ...

2021年1月9日 · A moving mixture of personal memoir and art writing, Olivia Laing's The Lonely City looks at the topic of loneliness by weaving her own ...