The Lonely City : Adventures in the Art of Being Alone Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award (2014) or even an escape from

or even an escape from reality

and her suicide

collects cacti and plays the piano

The Merrill Lynch financial consultants he trains learn that no one buys your product unless they like you

thus illustrating the scope of his influence

The Lonely City : Adventures in the Art of Being Alone Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award (2014) or even an escape fromWhat does it mean to be lonely? How do we live, if we're not intimately engaged with another human being? How do we connect with other people? Does technology draw us closer together or trap us behind screens? When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by this most shameful of experiences, she began to explore the lonely city by way of art. Moving