Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone and Amanda wrote down every

and Amanda wrote down every life-saving answer

both the violent protests and the peaceful and lawful decisions made at the ballot box in November of 2024

wanting to share it with everyone I know

and grow in self-awareness

Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times

Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone and Amanda wrote down everyFinalist 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