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Olivia Laing
Goodreads Author
Born
The United Kingdom
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Twitter
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June 2016
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The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
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2016
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56 editions
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Crudo
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2018
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29 editions
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Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
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2020
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17 editions
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The Trip to Echo Spring
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2013
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29 editions
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Everybody: A Book About Freedom
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2021
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22 editions
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To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface
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2011
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26 editions
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The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
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2024
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10 editions
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The Lonely City / To the River
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The Abandoned Person's Tale
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2018
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The Lonely City / Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency / To the River
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2023
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“I don't believe the cure for loneliness is meeting someone, not necessarily. I think it's about two things: learning how to befriend yourself and understanding that many of the things that seem to afflict us as individuals are in fact a result of larger forces of stigma and exclusion, which can and should be resisted.”
― The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
― The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
“So much of the pain of loneliness is to do with concealment, with feeling compelled to hide vulnerability, to tuck ugliness away, to cover up scars as if they are literally repulsive. But why hide? What's so shameful about wanting, about desire, about having failed to achieve satisfaction, about experiencing unhappiness? Why this need to constantly inhabit peak states, or to be comfortably sealed inside a unit of two, turned inward from the world at large?”
― The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
― The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
“There is a gentrification that is happening to cities, and there is a gentrification that is happening to the emotions too, with a similarly homogenising, whitening, deadening effect. Amidst the glossiness of late capitalism, we are fed the notion that all difficult feeling - depression, anxiety, loneliness, rage - are simply a consequence of unsettled chemistry, a problem to be fixed, rather than a response to structural injustice or, on the other hand, to the native texture of embodiment, of doing time, as David Wojnarowicz memorably put it, in a rented body, with all the attendant grief and frustration that entails.”
― The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
― The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
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