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Finalist 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 midthirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by the most shameful of experiences, she began to explore the lonely city by way of art. Moving from Edward Hopper's Nighthawks to Andy Warhol's Time Capsules, from Henry Darger's hoarding to David Wojnarowicz's AIDS activism, Laing conducts an electric, dazzling investigation into what it means to be alone, illuminating not only the causes of loneliness but also how it might be resisted and redeemed. Humane, provocative, and moving, The Lonely City is a celebration of a strange and lovely state, adrift from the larger continent of human experience, but intrinsic to the very act of being alive.
David Wojnarowicz's Rimbaud photo series of the artist or his anonymous model donning a mask of Rimbaud in various innocuous (sometimes decrepit) locations are haunting images for Laing because they seem to part of his autobiography: "The story of Wojnarowicz's life is emphatically a story about masks: why you might need them, why you might distrust them, why they might be necessary for survival; also toxic, also unbearable". Some of the other artists Laing examines also share harrowing experiences that inevitably inform their work. Many of them misfits and outcastes and some, criminally insane, one of the most tragic being feminist author Valerie Solanas, who famously got incarcerated for almost fatally shooting Andy Warhol and art critic Mario Amaya. Arguably, the most central figure in Laing's study is the inimitable Andy Warhol, whom Laing not only devotes a whole chapter, but also references in her discussion of other artists. For someone who is not an art connoisseur, and whose only exposure to Warhol's art are his pop art series of iconic American objects, I was captivated by his childhood and background, and the seeming juxtaposition between his public persona as someone "famous for his relentless sociability" who is always accompanied by "a glittering entourage" and the isolation portrayed in his work as well as his problems with forming social attachment with people.
Part memoir, part biography, part dazzling work of cultural criticism, The Lonely City is not just a map, but a celebration of the state of loneliness. It's a voyage out to a strange and sometimes lovely island, adrift from the larger continent of human experience, but visited by many—millions, say—of souls. Download and start listening now! Quotes & Awards "An impressive and beguiling combination of autobiography and biography, a balancing act that Laing effortlessly performs. " Elle "Every page of The Lonely City exudes a disarming, deep-down fondness for humanity. " Wall Street Journal "A beautiful meander of a book. " New Yorker "Laing…picks up the topic of painful urban isolation and sets it down in many smart and oddly consoling places. She makes the topic her own. " New York Times "Reminding us of how it feels to be lonely, this book gently affirms our connectedness. " Boston Globe "An uncommonly observant hybrid of memoir, history, and cultural criticism. " S an Francisco Chronicle "Her book succeeds in offering its readers a redemptive experience comparable to the one she's describing…This triumphant book is in part an appeal for us to value the kind of loneliness that can be rendered, by the intimacy of art, both tolerable and shareable. "
Publisher Description An expertly crafted work of reportage, memoir, and biography on the subject of loneliness told through the lives of six iconic artists, by the acclaimed author of The Trip to Echo Spring. You can be lonely anywhere, but there is a particular flavor to the loneliness that comes from living in a city, surrounded by thousands of strangers. The Lonely City is a roving cultural history of urban loneliness, centered on the ultimate city: Manhattan, that teeming island of gneiss, concrete, and glass. What does it mean to be lonely? How do we live if we're not intimately involved with another human being? How do we connect with other people, particularly if our sexuality or physical body is considered deviant or damaged? Does technology draw us closer together or trap us behind screens? Olivia Laing explores these questions by traveling deep into the work and lives of some of the century's most original artists, among them Andy Warhol, David Wojnarowicz, Edward Hopper, Henry Darger, and Klaus Nomi.