The Lonely City
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How It Would Feel to Be Free: Olivia Laing’s Everybody
Pleasures and possibilities, though, come hard-won in this book.
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An Urban Sort of Loneliness
The Lonely City bristles with heart-piercing wisdom. Loneliness, according to Laing, feels “like being hungry when everyone around you is readying for a feast.” Later, she admits that at one point during her own hermetic existence in New York, “I felt…
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The Lonely City by Olivia Laing
Zack Hatfield reviews The Lonely City by Olivia Laing today in Rumpus Books.
