Reading her latest book, a work of nonfiction that so artfully combines autobiography and criticism, produces the opposite effect, however. “Loneliness feels like such a shameful experience, so counter to the lives we are supposed to lead, that it becomes increasingly inadmissible, a taboo state whose confession seems destined to cause others to turn and flee,” Olivia Laing writes in The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone. Michele Filgate on Olivia Laing’s The Lonely City Today, read Michele Filgate offers on criticism finalist Olivia Laing’s The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Picador) and Walton Muyumba on Peter Orner’s Am I Alone Here? Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live (Catapult). In the 30 Books in 30 Days series leading up to the March 16 announcement of the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award winners, NBCC board members review the 30 finalists.
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